[android-beginners] Re: Pre-loading an SQLite database

2010-08-01 Thread Bret Foreman
Ben, I agree with you about the crying need. From a product roadmap point of view, this is a really obvious value for many developers. But I wouldn't jump to a solution too quickly. I've been thinking about the problem for a few days now and my opinion is that initial load data should come from

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Pre-loading an SQLite database

2010-08-01 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Bret Foreman bret.fore...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to investigate the option of using Amazon S3. There exists a Java library for S3 access along with methods to access all the AWS services: http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava/ The question remains, if I just use

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Pre-loading an SQLite database

2010-08-01 Thread Brian Cowan
On 8/1/2010 11:59 AM, Bret Foreman wrote: Ben, I agree with you about the crying need. From a product roadmap point of view, this is a really obvious value for many developers. But I wouldn't jump to a solution too quickly. I've been thinking about the problem for a few days now and my opinion

[android-beginners] Re: Pre-loading an SQLite database

2010-08-01 Thread Bret Foreman
Now that wireless companies are moving to metered data plans, I would be very annoyed if I found that the initial install of an app required a network connection to download an undetermined amount of data. If anyone does this, they should make sure that they tell the user how much data is

[android-beginners] Re: Pre-loading an SQLite database

2010-07-31 Thread Bret Foreman
Yeah, I thought about that. The two app solution is certainly clunky, though, especially when it's such a common problem. I think an S3 connection would be easier to implement, and certainly easier for the user. I've seen several dictionary apps that include the data in an app that you