EDIT, Changed the code slightly based on answers below, but still haven\'t got it working. I also added a log message to tell me if getCount was returning > 0, and i
Another alternative to the one already mentioned would be to use the function queryNumEntries from de class DatabaseUtils.
An example may be as follows:
public boolean checkEmpty(SQLiteDatabase db, String table){ return DatabaseUtils.queryNumEntries(db, table) == 0; }