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Content providers are the foundation for the rest of this book. In this chapter you will meet content providers and the tools used to build them. In addition you are introduced to the REST-like architecture they support and how that architecture enables the use of Android in the enterprise. The application created in this chapter can be found in the project KeyValCP.
The techniques introduced in the previous chapter — creating a globally accessible reference to a database object — might be appropriate for a small application. In more complex applications, however, developers will require better architectural separation between data management and other components of their application.
The Android content provider framework has several parts:
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