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P. SpäthPro Android with Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8745-3_6

6. Content Providers

Peter Späth1  
(1)
Leipzig, Germany
 

The Content Provider Framework

The content provider framework allows for
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    Using (structured) data provided by other apps

     
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    Providing (structured) data for use by other apps

     
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    Supporting copying data from one app to another

     
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    Providing data to the search framework

     
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    Providing data to special data-related UI widgets

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

     

The data communicated can have a strictly defined structure, for example, the rows from a database with defined column names and types, but it can ...

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