Pro Android with Kotlin: Developing Modern Mobile Apps

© Peter Späth 2018

Peter SpäthPro Android with Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3820-2_6

6. Content Providers

Peter Späth¹ 

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Leipzig, Germany

 

This chapter will cover content providers.

The Content Provider Framework

The content provider framework allows for the following:

• Using (structured) data provided by other apps

• Providing (structured) data for use by other apps

• Copying data from one app to another

• Providing data to the search framework

• Providing data to special data-related UI widgets

• Doing all that by virtue of a well-defined standardized interface

The data communicated can have a strictly defined structure, such as the rows from a database with defined column names and types, but it can also be files or byte arrays without any semantics ...