And how'd you perform the copy? Is there a way to let the user choose where to copy to? Or how the user can copy it back to the device?
On Apr 3, 8:11 am, MrChaz <[email protected]> wrote: > I went with plan B and simple copied the database file > > it lives in "data/data/<package name>/databases/<database name>" if i > remember rightly. > > On Apr 2, 9:23 pm, droozen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So I've come to a need to backup data in my application, so a user can > > safely restore the important data. I had an idea about how to go about > > this, but relatively it's a lot of work just to test if it would work, > > so it'd be nice to get a thumbs up or thumbs down to my plan from > > someone who has tried it, or an alternate way to do it. > > > I was thinking that I could compose an email that the user could send > > to himself with a link in it like: > > content://<mycontentprovider>/databackup/<the > > data, possibly in a delimited format (comma-separated)> > > > And when the user would click the link it would pull up my content > > provider that would take all the data from the link and restore it > > into my database. > > > Alternate idea: save the database file to another machine or email, > > but I wouldn't know how to go about doing this. Can I make my > > application attach the database to an email that could be imported? Is > > it easy to make the user hook up a USB cord to a computer for them to > > manually backup and reload the database file? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
