Putting cursor data into an array

Question

Being new in Android, I am having trouble dealing with the following:

public String[] getContacts(){
    Cursor cursor = getReadableDatabase().rawQuery(\"SELECT          


        

Answer 1

Try to put the data into the ArrayList as below:

   public ArrayList getContacts(){
        Cursor cursor = getReadableDatabase().rawQuery("SELECT name FROM contacts", null);
        ArrayList names=new ArrayList();
        if (cursor != null)
        {
            if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                for(int i = 0; i < cursor.getCount(); i ++){
                      names.add(cursor.getString(i));
                   }
               }
       cursor.close();
     }
     return names;
  }