LA Android Unit 4

SQLLite and Android
SQLLite
• Embedded RDBMS
• ACID Compliant
• Size – about 257 Kbytes
• Not a client/server architecture
• Accessed via function calls from the application
• Writing (insert, update, delete) locks the database, queries can be
done in parallel
SQLLite
• Datastore – single, cross platform file (kinda like an MS Access DB)
• Definitions
• Tables
• Indicies
• Data
Storage classes
• NULL – null value
• INTEGER - signed integer, stored in 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 8 bytes depending on the
magnitude of the value
• REAL - a floating point value, 8-byte IEEE floating point number.
• TEXT - text string, stored using the database encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16BE or UTF-
16LE).
• BLOB. The value is a blob of data, stored exactly as it was input.
android.database.sqlite
• Contains the SQLite database management classes that an application
would use to manage its own private database.
android.database.sqlite - Classes
• SQLiteCloseable - An object created from a SQLiteDatabase that can be closed.
• SQLiteCursor - A Cursor implementation that exposes results from a query on a
SQLiteDatabase.
• SQLiteDatabase - Exposes methods to manage a SQLite database.
• SQLiteOpenHelper - A helper class to manage database creation and version
management.
• SQLiteProgram - A base class for compiled SQLite programs.
• SQLiteQuery - A SQLite program that represents a query that reads the resulting rows
into a CursorWindow.
• SQLiteQueryBuilder - a convenience class that helps build SQL queries to be sent to
SQLiteDatabase objects.
• SQLiteStatement - A pre-compiled statement against a SQLiteDatabase that can be
reused.
android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase
• Contains the methods for: creating, opening, closing, inserting,

updating, deleting and quering an SQLite database
• These methods are similar to JDBC but more method oriented than
what we see with JDBC (remember there is not a RDBMS server
running)
openOrCreateDatabase( )
• This method will open an existing database or

create one in the application data area
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
SQLiteDatabase myDatabase;
myDatabase = openOrCreateDatabase ("my_sqlite_database.db" ,

SQLiteDatabase.CREATE_IF_NECESSARY , null);
SQLite Database Properties
• Important database configuration options include:

version, locale, and thread-safe locking.
import java.util.Locale;
myDatabase.setVersion(1);
myDatabase.setLockingEnabled(true);
myDatabase.SetLocale(Locale.getDefault());
Creating Tables
• Create a static string containing the SQLite CREATE

statement, use the execSQL( ) method to execute it.
String createAuthor = "CREAT TABLE authors (

id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
fname TEXT,
lname TEXT);
myDatabase.execSQL(createAuthor);
insert( )
• long insert(String table, String nullColumnHack, ContentValues

values)
import android.content.ContentValues;
ContentValues values = new ContentValues( );

values.put("firstname" , "J.K.");
values.put("lastname" , "Rowling");
long newAuthorID = myDatabase.insert("tbl_authors" , "" , values);
update( )
• int update(String table, ContentValues values, String

whereClause, String[ ] whereArgs)
public void updateBookTitle(Integer bookId, String newTitle) {

ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put("title" , newTitle);
myDatabase.update("tbl_books" , values ,
"id=?" , new String[ ] {bookId.toString() } );
}
delete( )
• int delete(String table, String whereClause, String[]

whereArgs)
public void deleteBook(Integer bookId) {

myDatabase.delete("tbl_books" , "id=?" ,
new String[ ] { bookId.toString( ) } ) ;
}
android.database
• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/package-summary.ht
ml
• Contains classes and interfaces to explore data returned through a content
provider.
• The main thing you are going to use here is the Cursor interface to get the data
from the resultset that is returned by a query
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/Cursor.html
Queries
• Method of SQLiteDatabase class and performs queries on the DB and returns the
results in a Cursor object
• Cursor c = mdb.query(p1,p2,p3,p4,p5,p6,p7)
• p1 ; Table name (String)
• p2 ; Columns to return (String array)
• p3 ; WHERE clause (use null for all, ?s for selection args)
• p4 ; selection arg values for ?s of WHERE clause
• p5 ; GROUP BY ( null for none) (String)
• p6 ; HAVING (null unless GROUP BY requires one) (String)
• p7 ; ORDER BY (null for default ordering)(String)
• p8 ; LIMIT (null for no limit) (String)
Simple Queries
• SQL - "SELECT * FROM ABC;"
SQLite - Cursor c = mdb.query(abc,null,null,null,null,null,null);
• SQL - "SELECT * FROM ABC WHERE C1=5"

SQLite - Cursor c = mdb.query(
abc,null,"c1=?" , new String[ ] {"5"},null,null,null);
• SQL – "SELECT title,id FROM BOOKS ORDER BY title ASC"

SQLite – String colsToReturn [ ] {"title","id"};
String sortOrder = "title ASC";
Cursor c = mdb.query("books",colsToReturn,
null,null,null,null,sortOrder);

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SQLLite and Android

• Contains the methods for: creating, opening, closing, inserting,

• This method will open an existing database or

myDatabase = openOrCreateDatabase ("my_sqlite_database.db" ,

• Important database configuration options include:

• Create a static string containing the SQLite CREATE

String createAuthor = "CREAT TABLE authors (

• long insert(String table, String nullColumnHack, ContentValues

ContentValues values = new ContentValues( );

• int update(String table, ContentValues values, String

public void updateBookTitle(Integer bookId, String newTitle) {

• int delete(String table, String whereClause, String[]

public void deleteBook(Integer bookId) {

• SQL - "SELECT * FROM ABC WHERE C1=5"

• SQL – "SELECT title,id FROM BOOKS ORDER BY title ASC"

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