Android SQLite Essentials

Develop Android applications with one of the most widely used database engines, SQLi

Key Features
Develop database-driven Android applications and stay ahead of the curve
Explore the best techniques to use cursors and loaders to achieve optimum results
A step-by-step approach to use SQLite for building Android applications

Book Description
SQLite is an open source relational database management system. Android uses the SQLite database to store and retrieve data persistently. The driving force behind the platform is the database, enabling a myriad of choices for developers making cutting-edge applications.

Android SQLite Essentials focuses on the core concepts behind building database-driven applications. This book covers the basic and advanced topics with equivalent simplicity and detail, in order to enable readers to quickly grasp and implement the concepts to build an application database.

This book takes a hands-on, example-based approach to help readers understand the core topics of SQLite and Android database-driven applications. This book focuses on providing you with latent as well as widespread knowledge about practices and approaches towards development in an easily understandable manner.

What you will learn
Design and develop an Android SQLite database architecture
Learn the basic principles of a database and include them in your applications
Get familiar with Android support classes with examples highlighting their uses
Create cutting-edge, database-driven applications in no time
Use SQLiteOpenHelper and SQLiteDatabase methods with Android views
Make use of ContentProvider to share your data
Use Loaders and SimpleCursorAdapter in your applications