browse data in Android SQLite Database

Question

Is there a way for an Android user to browse the SQLite databases on his/her phone and view the data in the databases?

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Answer 1

Actually the most available (yet still hacky) way of getting "live" results from a database while developing on emulator that I found is this:

1. Create a script to pull the database from emulator, something like this

   #!/bin/bash
   
   ANDROID_HOME=/path/to/sdk
   ADB=$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools/adb
   REMOTE_DB_PATH=/data/data/com.yourpackage.name/databases/your_db
   LOCAL_DB_PATH=.
   
   while true; do
   
     echo copying DB...
     `$ADB pull $REMOTE_DB_PATH $LOCAL_DB_PATH`
     sleep 3
   
   done
   

   Run it.

2. Install SQLite Manager plugin for Firefox

3. Open your local copy of the database (which is constantly overridden by the running script from step 1)

4. Enter your SQL:

   

5. Select File->Reconnect

6. Click Run SQL

The key trick is that reconnecting does not reset SQL entered on step 4 (as it does, for example, in SQLite Browser), so you can repeat steps 5,6 to see "live" results from your android database.

Note that this only works for emulator, it won't work for a real device (even a rooted one).