John and Mark, thanks for your answers :)
On Dec 10, 7:50 pm, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > My idea is to put this data as a file in the .apk. Then, on initial > > application launch to read this data and populate Android SQLite > > database with it. Then just work with this database. But after the > > database is populated the data file is no longer needed. And I'd like > > to remove it to free some memory. > > The APK file cannot be modified at runtime, so you will not be able to > delete your data file if it is packaged in the APK. If you download the > data file after install, you can delete the downloaded data file after > conversion to SQLite (or just download it in SQLite format in the first > place). > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html -- 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
