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hap497
hap497

Reputation: 162985

Android custom ContentProvider

Is it possible to create a custom ContentProvider to

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1302

Answers (1)

exhuma
exhuma

Reputation: 21707

Short Answer: Yes

Longer answer:

ContentProviders are a layer sitting in between the "outside world" (e.g. other Android Activities) and the back-end data storage. You will never have direct access to the database. The database is stored in the Activities private storage space. So all you can do is dictated by the ContentProvider you are addressing.

If the ContentProvider only allows read-only access to the data, than that is all you can do.

So in the end, you can only offer access which has at most the kind of access as the ContentProvider you are using. You can however expose a different data structure. Or you could also create one ContentProvider which uses multiple other providers internally.

On the bottom line, within the given bounds, your imagination is the limit.

Upvotes: 2

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