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Copying, opening and accessing your database in your Android application. Step1:Put cities.db in your directory ->assets Step2: CityDBHelper myDbHelper = new CityDBHelper (); myDbHelper = new CityDBHelper (this); try { myDbHelper.createDataBase(); } catch (IOException ioe) { throw new Error("Unable to create database"); } try { myDbHelper.openD…
public class CityDBHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {
private static int DB_VERSION = 1;
private static String DB_PATH = Environment.getDataDirectory()
.getPath()+"/data/com.geek4it.demo/databases/";
private static String DB_NAME = "cities";
private SQLiteDatabase myDataBase;
private final Context myContext;
public CityDBHelper(Context context) {
super(context, DB_NAME, null, DB_VERSION);
this.myContext = context;
}
public void createDataBase() throws IOException {
boolean dbExist = checkDataBase();
Log.i("Geek4IT", "createDataBase...dbExist:" + dbExist);
if (!dbExist) {
this.getReadableDatabase();
try {
copyDataBase();
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new Error("Error copying database");
}
}
}
private boolean checkDataBase() {
SQLiteDatabase checkDB = null;
try {
String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
checkDB = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null,
SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READONLY);
} catch (SQLiteException e) {
}
if (checkDB != null) {
checkDB.close();
}
return checkDB != null ? true : false;
}
private void copyDataBase() throws IOException {
InputStream myInput = myContext.getAssets().open(DB_NAME);
String outFileName = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
OutputStream myOutput = new FileOutputStream(outFileName);
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int length;
while ((length = myInput.read(buffer)) > 0) {
myOutput.write(buffer, 0, length);
}
myOutput.flush();
myOutput.close();
myInput.close();
}
public void openDataBase() throws SQLException {
String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
myDataBase = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null,
SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READONLY);
}
@Override
public synchronized void close() {
if (myDataBase != null)
myDataBase.close();
super.close();
}
@Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
}
@Override
public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
}
}
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