Android Programming for Beginners - Second Edition

Android SQLite API

There are a number of different ways in which the Android API makes it fairly easy to use our app's database. The first class we need to get familiar with is SQLiteOpenHelper.

SQLiteOpenHelper and SQLiteDatabase

The SQLiteDatabase class is the class that represents the actual database. The SQLiteOpenHelper class, however, is where most of the action takes place. This class will enable us to get access to a database and initialize an instance of SQLiteDatabase.

In addition, the SQLiteOpenHelper, which we will extend in our Age Database app, has two methods to override. First, it has an onCreate method, which is called the first time a database is used, and it therefore makes sense that we would incorporate our SQL in which to create ...