Android backup and restore database to and from SD-card

Question

I\'m currently looking to build a backup feature in my Android application. However I\'m kinda struggling before even starting to implement it because I\'m not sure what the

Answer 1

I always use 1.). Here's a class of mine that does backup of a DB to SD-card. I'm using FileUtils from the Apache commons-io here, you need to change that if you don't use that jar. In addition there's need for a method in your SQLiteOpenHelper class (here MySQLiteOpenHelper.getDatabaseName()) that returns the name of your database file.

You will call that from within an AsyncTask in one of your activities...

public class MyDatabaseTools {
  private String appName = "";
  private String packageName = "";

  public boolean backup() {
    boolean rc = false;

    boolean writeable = isSDCardWriteable();
    if (writeable) {
      File file = new File(Environment.getDataDirectory() + "/data/" + packageName + "/databases/" + MySQLiteOpenHelper.getDatabaseName());

      File fileBackupDir = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), appName + "/backup");
      if (!fileBackupDir.exists()) {
        fileBackupDir.mkdirs();
      }

      if (file.exists()) {
        File fileBackup = new File(fileBackupDir, MySQLiteOpenHelper.getDatabaseName());
        try {
          fileBackup.createNewFile();
          FileUtils.copyFile(file, fileBackup);
          rc = true;
        } catch (IOException ioException) {
          //
        } catch (Exception exception) {
          //
        }
      }
    }

    return rc;
  }

  private boolean isSDCardWriteable() {
    boolean rc = false;

    String state = Environment.getExternalStorageState();
    if (Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED.equals(state)) {
      rc = true;
    }

    return rc;
  }

    public MyDatabaseTools(final Context context, final String appName) {
        this.appName = appName;
        packageName = context.getPackageName();
    }
}