On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Android Device <[email protected]> wrote: > "Content providers are also useful for reading and writing data that > is private to your application and not shared". What does this means?
Files located in getFilesDir() are accessible to you but not to third party apps. You could make those files available to other apps via a ContentProvider (e.g., so they can be opened by those apps). Databases located in the default location are accessible to you but not to third party apps. You could make that data available to other apps via a ContentProvider. Etc. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! -- 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
