Many of the standard providers use multiple tables.  For example:

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/providers/ContactsProvider.git;a=blob;f=src/com/android/providers/contacts/ContactsProvider.java

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Harshit Mapara <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Actually I found one way.
>
> using SQLiteDatabase object you can call rawQuery() method and pass
> the entire select query.
> You can specify whatever you want (inner join, outer join,...)
>
> I tried this way and it worked.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Oct 7, 8:06 am, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Seems like you could do that.  Have you tried setting up your content
> > provider so that it does a query against multiple tables?
> >
> > The whole idea of content providers (other than exposing data across
> > apps) is that the app requesting the data doesn't need to know
> > anything about the complexity behind what is being done to collect the
> > data.  Your app might request a simple query, but your content
> > provider is doing a lot of complicated work to collect that data.
> >
> > On Oct 6, 11:59 am, "Mapara,Harshit Nitinkumar" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> >
> > > I want to operate on multiple tables. I searched a lot but everywhere
> > > I could find is single table with one content provider.
> >
> > > How can I use multiple tables under one content provider? How can I
> > > get result from two/three tables ?
> >
> > > Can I provide my own SQL select query from multiple tables in
> > > ContentProvider?
> >
> > > Can anybody give me any example or link where I can get idea?
> >
> > > Thanks
> > > Harshit
> >
>


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