android-contentprovider

I thought that it is impossible to access resources contained in other APK unless content providers are used. However, I stumbled upon an app called Better Keyboard. It uses skins, so I decided to download an example of a skin. An example skin really surprised me. It contains almost no code, declares only an activity and no content providers. Nontheless it contains resources and they are apparently somehow accessed from Better Keyboard app if the APK with the skin gets installed. So how is it done? I believe you're looking for Resources res = mPackageManager.getResourcesForApplication("org

The goal: refresh database from XML data The process: Start transaction Delete all existing rows from the tables Per each main element of parsed XML insert row into main table and get PK Per each child of the main element insert record into 2nd table providing FK from the previous step Commit transaction Pretty standard stuff as far as db operations. The problem is that CRUD operations are not done within ContentProvider but rather using ContentResolver so the insert for example looks like resolver.insert(CONTENT_URI, contentValues) . The ContentResolver API doesn't seem to have anything

I try to understand the Android synchronization logic. What I don't understand is the file syncadapter.xml contained in the Android SDK sample project SampleSyncAdapter . If you downloaded the SDK samples it should be in the following folder: SDK/android-sdk-PLATFORM/samples/android-VERSION/SampleSyncAdapter/res/xml/syncadapter.xml I read, the authority of a content provider should be a string or a reference to a resource. What exactly is the content authority and where is com.android.contacts ? Here is the content of the file (w/o license information and comments, API level 16). <sync-adapter

Question regarding content://sms/inbox : 1) Is it advisable to explicitly store incoming messages to inbox? 2) What if an android device has a native messaging app and my messaging app was installed to it, and then I explicitly store incoming messages to inbox, will the messages duplicate? 3) Does android automatically store new messages to inbox regardless if there is a messaging application? Thanks. Regarding SMS, details vary depending on the Android version. Prior to KitKat, the SMS API was undocumented. With KitKat, the concept of a default SMS app was introduced, and the SMS API became

Can someone explain how to use EXDATE when adding event to android calendar? The documentation is pretty unclear about the format in which the EXDATE should be put. I tried many formats, these are some of them: values.put(Events.EXDATE, "TZID=Europe/London:20130116T080000"); values.put(Events.EXDATE, "20130116T080000Z"); values.put(Events.EXDATE, "20130116T080000"); values.put(Events.EXDATE, "20130116"); but none of them works. Any idea how to make an event not appear on a particular date, if by the RRULE it should appear? The correct format is: values.put(Events.EXDATE, "20130116T080000Z");

I need to insert data related to an Order and its corresponding Detail . Without a ContentProvider I would do something like this: public boolean insertOrder(Order order, ArrayList<OrderDetail> items) { boolean wasSuccessful = false; ContentValues cvOrder = new ContentValues(); cvPedido.put(ORDER_CUSTOMER_ID, order.getCustomerId()); cvPedido.put(ORDER_CUSTOMER_NAME, order.getCustomerName()); String insertQuery = "INSERT INTO " + ORDER_DETAIL_TABLE + " VALUES (?,?)"; //... try { this.openWriteableDB(); SQLiteStatement statement = db.compileStatement(insertQuery); db.beginTransaction(); long

I have a custom ContentProvider I use to store fixes obtained from the GPS into a SQLite database. This class overrides ContentProvider methods (delete, insert, query...), but notice I have also included a method to query the last fix. public class FixesContentProvider extends ContentProvider { @Override public int delete(...) { ... } ... @Override public Cursor query(...) { ... } public Cursor getLastFix(Uri uri) { ... } } It is pretty easy to query data from other services or activities by calling getContentResolver() . ContentResolver cR = getContentResolver(); Cursor fixes = cR.query