Cursor.getType() for API Level <11

Question

I\'m querying the CallLog content provider and need to detect the column types.

In Honeycomb and newer (API Level 11+) you can get a columns preferred data type by c

Answer 1

There is something that may work : http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/DatabaseUtils.html cursorRowToContentValues

will copy the row in a ContentValues object. Then, you can call ContentValues.get(), which give you an object. you can then look at the Class of this object.

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According to the source code of DatabaseUtils, the object are either blobs or Strings.

edit 2

However, if your cursor is a WindowedCursor, it has methods to know the object types. (isBlob, isString, isLong...)