The application context itself is not available to the DBAdapter singleton.
Am I simply taking the wrong approach in managing my applications access to the database? Would I be better off with using a content provider, for example? Is this the preferred method? Obviously, by using a synchronized singleton, processes will be waiting for their opportunity to access the database. Will a content provider automagically manage this for me? My application may attempt to perform synchronous writes to the database, via multiple background processes and activities, so this is a priority. In the book I have it mentioned that you will generally use a content provider if you want to make the database available to other applications. Is this one of the cases where i will want to use one solely for a single application? That said, how do I simply get the application context from a class which doesn't extend a base application class? Should I be extending something anyway? Kind regards, Matt On May 18, 3:46 am, Marco Nelissen <[email protected]> wrote: > Your application/activity will be given a Context by the system. Use that. > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Makeable <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have just started on a new application that will use SQLite for > > persistance and Im a bit confused over the usage of a context when > > utilizing the SQLiteOpenHelper. > > > I have a base class called Storable, which my models extend if they > > need to be persisted. > > i had intended to use a synchronized singleton database adapter, but I > > can't for the life of me understand how to utilize the > > SQLiteOpenHelper as it requires a context, which my models don't > > appear to possess. > > > Im aware that I can get around this by not using the SQLOpenHelper - > > but if this restriction is in place, I would assume its to prevent > > people creating apps "the wrong way" for android. > > > What is the best practice way for saving models in the database? > > > I'm now on my 26th hour of no sleep, so any advice would be very much > > appreciated :) > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
