Android™ Application Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, Third Edition

Hour 14. Creating a Content Provider

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

Retrieving data with a URI

Building a content provider

Using a content provider in your app

Hour 13, “Using SQLite and File Storage,” introduced SQLite, and you used cursors in your app to access data from the database. You can think of content providers as a bridge between the database and the app. Content providers work with any type of structured data. One reason to use a content ...