Is it possible to move the internal DB to the SDCard?

Question

As the database in my app grows, it is going to require more and more of the internal phone space. There isn\'t any sensitive/private data in the DB, so I\'m interested in m

Answer 1

I found I could use a full path in Android 2.2, but in 2.1 the Context.openOrCreateDatabase() method threw an exception. To work around this I wrapped that method to call SQLiteDatabase.openOrCreateDatabase() directly. Here is the constructor for my extended SQLOpenHelper

public class Database extends SQLiteOpenHelper {
  public Database(Context context) {
    super(new ContextWrapper(context) {
        @Override public SQLiteDatabase openOrCreateDatabase(String name, 
                int mode, SQLiteDatabase.CursorFactory factory) {

            // allow database directory to be specified
            File dir = new File(DIR);
            if(!dir.exists()) {
                dir.mkdirs();
            }
            return SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(DIR + "/" + NAME, null,
                SQLiteDatabase.CREATE_IF_NECESSARY);
        }
    }, NAME, null, VERSION);
    this.context = context;
  }
}