Hi all, Bit of a newbie here.
I am in the initial project research phase for an Android application and I am currently looking to find information on best practices. To let you know a little of my background - I come from a web application development background and am now looking to branch into the an Android mobile application. Previosuly I have developed mobile (Opera) widgets which are essentially small embedded webpages which I coded using Google Web Toolkit for the interface. I'm aware that Android is a very different animal. However I'm writing to see what people consider the most efficient/ useful/easiest way of fetching data from a database? >From initial research I have done it seems Android makes use of the SQLLiteDatabase (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/ database/sqlite/SQLiteDatabase.html) But is this database bundled along with the mobile application??? (Thus making updates pretty hard??!) Also I see you can make use of HTTP GET methods to call to a server to fetch data as XML or JSON etc. As it stands this would be my preferred way of communicating with a database as I can perform all of my usual Object Relational Mapping and DB query with Hibernate as you would do in a Standard web application. But it is only a personal preference because of experience and is potentially not the right path to take? If you have any comments or experiences you would like to share please let me know Eggsy -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
