On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Jim Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > A bit of background: I am working on a brewer's grain/malt > specifications database app (and after that, similar for hops > and yeast).
Great. Just what we need: a bunch of drunk Androids wandering around. :-) > Question: Given that the database is read-only, and the fact that, > in order to copy it from one location to another, I already have to > be able to read it, can I just leave it in the assets directory and > read from it in that location instead of making a copy? AFAIK, no. SQLite needs a file. The asset is merely a hunk of space inside the APK file (which is really a ZIP archive). -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- 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
