Bulk Insertion on Android device

Question

I want to bulk insert about 700 records into the Android database on my next upgrade. What\'s the most efficient way to do this? From various posts, I know that if I use <

Answer 1

I've found that for bulk insertions, the (apparently little-used) DatabaseUtils.InsertHelper class is several times faster than using SQLiteDatabase.insert.

Two other optimizations also helped with my app's performance, though they may not be appropriate in all cases:

• Don't bind values that are empty or null.
• If you can be certain that it's safe to do it, temporarily turning off the database's internal locking can also help performance.

I have a blog post with more details.