Yes, but he wants to be able to easily update the packaged part of the database, and he's not wanting to deal with record data outside of a sqlite db in the update. I suppose if you were to use the special flag column, you could extract out the user's rows, replace the packaged db with your new one, then re-insert the user's rows back in. Would that work?
- dave www.android book.com/proandroid3 On Jul 25, 3:48 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > How about using one database, and having a column that tells you if a > particular data item (row) came prepackaged, or added / edited by the user? > > This could work if your database schema is not too complicated. > > -- Kostya > > 25.07.2011 23:31, Federico Paolinelli пишет: > > > > > > > Hi all, hope somebody can help me with the issue I am having while > > finishing my app. > > > At the moment my app relies on a sqlite db to store / give back some > > kind of data. The user can of course add / delete rows from the db, > > and I thought it would have been nice to provide some stuff pre > > installed (it's full of examples on how to ship a pre built sqllite > > file). I am now thinking that, if I just provide a pre installed db, > > the user's new data will be mixed the pre installed one. > > > Now, what I'd really like to do is an easy way to update the data > > between a release and another without wiping the user's own data out. > > If I just overwrite the .db file, I will loose the user's own data. > > > I thought a possible solution would be to have two separates sqllite > > files, one with my pre-installed stuff (that I can update from release > > to release), and one with the data filled by the user (that will > > survive between updates). I can then use a merge cursor to display the > > data as if it were from one single db, but it sounds a bit tricky. > > > Do you guys have some other way to achieve this result? > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Federico > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Kostya Vasilyev -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
