How does one check if a table exists in an Android SQLite database?

Question

I have an android app that needs to check if there\'s already a record in the database, and if not, process some things and eventually insert it, and simply read the data fr

Answer 1

Although there are already a lot of good answers to this question, I came up with another solution that I think is more simple. Surround your query with a try block and the following catch:

catch (SQLiteException e){
    if (e.getMessage().contains("no such table")){
            Log.e(TAG, "Creating table " + TABLE_NAME + "because it doesn't exist!" );
            // create table
            // re-run query, etc.
    }
}

It worked for me!