[android-developers] Query about Content Provider queries

I have one quick question and one maybe not-as-quick question: 1. Will we be able to employ more robust SQL(ite) queries on content providers with future releases? For instance: joins, distinct, count, max, etc? 2. Why isn't this possible now? I understand the concept of DB table abstraction

[android-developers] GREF count increases with multi threading

I have looked as hard as I could to find past posts on this topic, but nothing I found seems to be able to help... So... I have one additional thread running in my activity. This thread's job is to scan a content provider and check the entries to see if they need updating. It is running a