burton miller wrote:
these solutions will not work for me.
i have a 4.5mb database, which i do not want to duplicate by copying
it out of the apk and into a directory.
copying it from the web could potentially be very slow as well.
i can't believe that there is not a better solution to
i'm not trying to be difficult - i've been a desktop developer for
many years - but the desktop systems have a LOT more storage, so the
paradigm is fundamentally different than a phone.
i'm very hesistant to ship a 4.5mb database and duplicate it all
inside the tiny sliver of user storage
Your best option is to copy it to the SD card.
I don't see any chance if supporting SQLite on an database embedded in a
.apk any time soon. Ignoring whatever issues there are in SQLite just to do
this kind of thing, I wouldn't want to count on Android 3.x running who
knows what later version of
Downloading it once is probably the best approach, and also allows you
to release updates to the database that your app can check for. You
could reduce the bandwidth some by compressing it and having the app
decompress it.
On Dec 3, 1:50 pm, burton miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i'm not trying
these solutions will not work for me.
i have a 4.5mb database, which i do not want to duplicate by copying
it out of the apk and into a directory.
copying it from the web could potentially be very slow as well.
i can't believe that there is not a better solution to this extremely
common
Do you think you could include some sample code for how to execute an
sql script thats been included as raw?
On Nov 15, 7:59 pm, Dan B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think your best 2 options are as the previous poster stated.
1) package the db file as a raw resource, then just use a file stream
Stu wrote:
I'm unable to find how I can ship my database with my application.
I don't really want to populate the database at the first run, it just
seems a bit pointless when I could prevent this time consuming
activity by including a pre-populated db.
AFAIK, applications are not unpacked
Hi Mark,
thanks for your help. I guess I'll just have a play around with a
couple of those suggestions and see which one works for me. :)
Regards,
Stuart.
On Nov 15, 9:57 pm, Mark Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stu wrote:
I'm unable to find how I can ship my database with my application.
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