Ok. Thanks a lot Joerg! I wanna create a ticket, but I don't know where to turn
Is this where I'm supposed to post: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list It seems to be only for bugs though, is it? Anyhow, I commited a bug there half a year ago and it still hasn't been looked at, is anyone dealing with those issues at all? K On Dec 9, 7:41 am, Joerg Pleumann <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree the existence of the driver should be mentioned at least in > the JDBC package docs. Would you mind creating a ticket for this? > > JDBC is somewhat of a second-class citizen in the Android world, since > Android has its own database API (that is actually not too far away > from JDBC, but has much better integration with the UI framework). I > guess this is why the docs don't encourage you to use JDBC. Still, > JDBC is usable, and - as you already noticed - it is possible to > install additional drivers. > > Regarding android.jar, I never checked but I could imagine that it > contains only the public API classes and might even have the actual > bytecode erased. Nothing is ever run against it. It is just there to > make Javac or Eclipse happy (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong). > On the device, the driver should be part of /system/framework/ > core.jar. > > Cheers, > Joerg > > On 8 Dez., 21:56, kristianlm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I see. I still think the documents are lacking! > > > Am I the only one who'd want a comment on the JDBC > > support in the dev-guide documents? > > > There seems to be a fair share of confused people out there ... > > > On Dec 8, 8:33 pm, jotobjects <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 8, 11:02 am, kristianlm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I cant believe this though - there's already a driver available? I > > > > can't find that in the docs anywhere! Which java.sql online manual are > > > > you looking at? I'm > > > > athttp://developer.android.com/reference/java/sql/package-summary.html > > > >http://dev.android.com/reference/java/sql/package-summary.html > > > > That's JDBC - the Connection object uses a JDBC driver for SQLite. > > > > Try Connection.getMetaData().getDriverName() and see what you get. > > > Probably it will be "SQLite.JDBCDriver" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
