Android SQLite database: slow insertion

Question

I need to parse a fairly large XML file (varying between about a hundred kilobytes and several hundred kilobytes), which I\'m doing using Xml#parse(String, ContentHand

Answer 1

You should do batch inserts.

Pseudocode:

db.beginTransaction();
for (entry : listOfEntries) {
    db.insert(entry);
}
db.setTransactionSuccessful();
db.endTransaction();

That increased the speed of inserts in my apps extremely.

Update:
@Yuku provided a very interesting blog post: Android using inserthelper for faster insertions into sqlite database