Thanks, Mark!!
On Feb 2, 10:13 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> rxh wrote:
> > I am new to the world of Android, and I have quick question. I have
> > an app that uses an existing SQLite database (in a .db file), and how
> > do I package the .db file along with my application?
>
> You can't, at least not directly, AFAIK.
>
> The solution I have been using is to use the .dump command in sqlite3 to
> convert the database into SQL statements (create the table, create the
> indexes, insert the data). Then, I put that file in res/raw/ and have my
> SQLiteOpenHelper subclass execute the statements in that file. I have
> put this all into my build process, so all I need to do is increment the
> version number of the database in my SQLiteOpenHelper, and everything
> else is automatic.
>
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>
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