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Mathias Aichinger
Mathias Aichinger

Reputation: 893

Android ContentProvider initialization not at application start

is it possible to initialize the contentprovider in the application?

because i need to create a database for every user/server combination and I'm creating the database with the login information in the oncreate method of the the contentprovider!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1647

Answers (2)

James
James

Reputation: 193

Based on what it sounds like you are trying to do, you may consider contextualizing your ContentProvider's database access (this may be another way of describing what @Gary B. was getting at):

When you initialize the content provider, create a database within which you will store the list of user/server combinations. Then, when a user logs into the application, create the corresponding database and update the master list for the ContentProvider.

In the ContentProvider's public operations, determine which user/server combination is active (or being requested) and then look up the appropriate database in the master database you created on installation. You can then read the user/server specific information and return this to the caller.

Alternatively, you could likely implement this all within one database, but I don't understand enough about your requirements to recommend a specific approach...

Upvotes: 2

Gyan
Gyan

Reputation: 12410

An SQLiteOpenHelper is usually the place to do database creation. More specifically the onCreate(SQLiteDatabase) method. It will create the database when the app is installed.

Upvotes: 0

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