14 SQLite Databases
Almost every application needs a place to save data for the long term, longer than savedInstanceState will keep it around. Android provides a place to do this for you: a local filesystem on your phone or tablet’s flash memory storage.
Each application on an Android device has a directory in the device’s sandbox. Keeping files in the sandbox protects them from being accessed by other applications or even the prying eyes of users (unless the device has been “rooted,” in which case the user can get to whatever he or she likes).
Each application’s sandbox directory is a child of the device’s /data/data directory named after the application package. For CriminalIntent, the full path to the sandbox directory ...
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