Saving ArrayList in SQLite database in Android

Question

I\'ve been working with SQLite on android and I would like to add an arraylist to a column in a table, and then fetch the data back as an arraylist. The arraylist is a list

Answer 1

I had two ArrayList, both will 1000+ entries. I looked at blobs and bytes, but for me the solution to speeding up the process and making it usable was by changing the insert method and getting rid of database.insert - Credit for this is here.

private static final String INSERT = "insert into "
            + YOUR_TABLE_NAME+ " (" + COLUMN_1 + ", "
            + COLUMN_2 + ") values (?, ?)";

public void insertArrayData(ArrayList array1,
            ArrayList array2) {

        try {
            database.open();
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        int aSize = array1.size();

        database.beginTransaction();

        try {
            SQLiteStatement insert = database.compileStatement(INSERT);

            for (int i = 0; i < aSize; i++) {

                insert.bindString(1, array1.get(i));
                insert.bindString(2, array2.get(i));
                insert.executeInsert();

            }

            database.setTransactionSuccessful();
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            database.endTransaction();
        }

        try {
            database.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

It's easily adaptable to Longs and Integers etc and lightening quick. So thankfully I didn't have to scratch my head any longer about blobs and bytes! Hope it helps.