How to get row count in sqlite using Android?

Question

I am creating task manager. I have tasklist and I want when I click on particular tasklist name if it empty then it goes on Add Task activity but if it has 2 or 3 tasks then

Answer 1

I know it is been answered long time ago, but i would like to share this also:

This code works very well:

SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
long taskCount = DatabaseUtils.queryNumEntries(db, TABLE_TODOTASK);

BUT what if i dont want to count all rows and i have a condition to apply?

DatabaseUtils have another function for this: DatabaseUtils.longForQuery

long taskCount = DatabaseUtils.longForQuery(db, "SELECT COUNT (*) FROM " + TABLE_TODOTASK + " WHERE " + KEY_TASK_TASKLISTID + "=?",
         new String[] { String.valueOf(tasklist_Id) });

The longForQuery documentation says:

Utility method to run the query on the db and return the value in the first column of the first row.

public static long longForQuery(SQLiteDatabase db, String query, String[] selectionArgs)

It is performance friendly and save you some time and boilerplate code

Hope this will help somebody someday :)

Answer 2

c.getCount() returns 1 because the cursor contains a single row (the one with the real COUNT(*)). The count you need is the int value of first row in cursor.

public int getTaskCount(long tasklist_Id) {

    SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
    Cursor cursor= db.rawQuery(
        "SELECT COUNT (*) FROM " + TABLE_TODOTASK + " WHERE " + KEY_TASK_TASKLISTID + "=?",
         new String[] { String.valueOf(tasklist_Id) }
    );
    int count = 0;
    if(null != cursor)
        if(cursor.getCount() > 0){
          cursor.moveToFirst();    
          count = cursor.getInt(0);
        }
        cursor.close();
    }

    db.close();
    return count;
}   

Answer 3

Once you get the cursor you can do

Cursor.getCount()

Answer 4

In order to query a table for the number of rows in that table, you want your query to be as efficient as possible. Reference.

Use something like this:

/**
 * Query the Number of Entries in a Sqlite Table
 * */
public long QueryNumEntries()
{
    SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
    return DatabaseUtils.queryNumEntries(db, "table_name");
}

Answer 5

Use android.database.DatabaseUtils to get number of count.

public long getTaskCount(long tasklist_Id) {
        return DatabaseUtils.queryNumEntries(readableDatabase, TABLE_NAME);
}

It is easy utility that has multiple wrapper methods to achieve database operations.

Answer 6

Using DatabaseUtils.queryNumEntries():

public long getProfilesCount() {
    SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
    long count = DatabaseUtils.queryNumEntries(db, TABLE_NAME);
    db.close();
    return count;
}

or (more inefficiently)

public int getProfilesCount() {
    String countQuery = "SELECT  * FROM " + TABLE_NAME;
    SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
    Cursor cursor = db.rawQuery(countQuery, null);
    int count = cursor.getCount();
    cursor.close();
    return count;
}

In Activity:

int profile_counts = db.getProfilesCount();
    db.close();