Android: Bulk Insert, when InsertHelper is deprecated

Question

There is plenty answers and tutorials using InsertHelper to do fast bulk insert in SQLiteDatabase.
But InsertHelper is deprecated as of API 17.

What is now the f

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue and could not find how SQLiteStatement could easily replace DatabaseUtils.InsertHelper as you need to build the SQL query by hand.

I ended up using SQLiteDatabase.insertOrThrow which can easily replace existing code. I only had to add sometimes a null column hack to handle cases where I insert empty ContentValues.

Yes the statement is not compiled to be reused later but building a INSERT query by hand and binding all the parameters is too much pain. I would be interested to know how much this impact performance for large bulk insert data set (InsertHelper is only deprecated) in case you modify your code.