How to Get data from Azure DB Table to an Android app?

Question

I\'m new to azure, I don\'t know how to connect to a Table I created on an Azure Database. I want to get the table data (SELECT *) and populate them in a GridView in android

Answer 1

Most sure way that you will get data from Azure Table Storage to your android is via REST API. It is relatively straight forward and you have full control.

For example, to fetch (query) data you can check the following sample request:

Request Syntax:
GET /myaccount/Customers()?$filter=(Rating%20ge%203)%20and%20(Rating%20le%206)&$select=PartitionKey,RowKey,Address,CustomerSince  HTTP/1.1

Request Headers:
x-ms-version: 2013-08-15
x-ms-date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:25:14 GMT
Authorization: SharedKeyLite myaccount:
Accept: application/atom+xml,application/xml
Accept-Charset: UTF-8
DataServiceVersion: 2.0;NetFx
MaxDataServiceVersion: 2.0;NetFx

More on that:

• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179421.aspx
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179423.aspx

Please note that Azure tables does not support SQL language. Azure Tables are totally different type of storage (so called no-sql).