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Apps Use my own database

Hi farfrumsober,

I was working on the exact same thing last night!lol

JiMMaR has given you an excellent link - thats the same site I used. Although I discovered through hours of working with the example that it wasn't perfect.

Below is the code which works for me (I am a newbie, but I hope it's to a reasonable standard!). Please go through it and compare it to your code and hopefully you'll be able to get it working.

Main.java
Code:
package com.odhranlynch.interiordesigner;

import com.odhranlynch.interiordesigner.R;

import java.io.IOException;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.SQLException;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class Main extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    	super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    	setContentView(R.layout.main);
    	DataBaseHelper myDbHelper = new DataBaseHelper(this);;
    	myDbHelper = new DataBaseHelper(this);
        
    	//Load "productDatabase" database (see assets to left).
        {
    		try {
    			myDbHelper.createDataBase();} 
    		catch (IOException ioe) {
    			throw new Error("Unable to create database");}
    	
    		try {
    			myDbHelper.openDataBase();}
    		catch(SQLException sqle){
    			throw sqle;}
    }
    
  //---get all titles---
    myDbHelper.openDataBase();
    Cursor cursorPosition = myDbHelper.getAllTitles();
    
    if (cursorPosition.moveToFirst())
    {
    do {
    DisplayTitle(cursorPosition);
    } while (cursorPosition.moveToNext());
    }
    myDbHelper.close();
    }

	public void DisplayTitle(Cursor cursorPosition)
	{
		Toast.makeText(this,
		"id: " + cursorPosition.getString(0) + "\n" +
		"TITLE: " + cursorPosition.getString(1) + "\n" +
		"CATEGORY: " + cursorPosition.getString(2) + "\n" +
		"BODY: " + cursorPosition.getString(3),
		Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();}
}

DataBaseHelper.java
Code:
package com.odhranlynch.interiordesigner;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.SQLException;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper;

public class DataBaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper{
 
    //The Android's default system path of your application database.
    private static String DB_PATH = "/data/data/com.odhranlynch.interiordesigner/databases/";
    private static String DB_NAME = "productDatabase";
    public static final String KEY_ROWID = "_id";
    public static final String KEY_TITLE = "title";
    public static final String KEY_CATEGORY = "category";
    public static final String KEY_BODY = "body";
    private SQLiteDatabase myDataBase; 
    final Context myContext;
 
    /**
     * Constructor
     * Takes and keeps a reference of the passed context in order to access to the application assets and resources.
     * @param context
     */
    public DataBaseHelper(Context context) {
 
    	super(context, DB_NAME, null, 1);
        this.myContext = context;
    }	
 
  /**
     * Creates a empty database on the system and rewrites it with your own database.
     * */
    public void createDataBase() throws IOException{
 
    	boolean dbExist = checkDataBase();
 
    	if(dbExist){
    		//do nothing - database already exist
    	}else{
 
    		//By calling this method and empty database will be created into the default system path
               //of your application so we are gonna be able to overwrite that database with our database.
        	this.getReadableDatabase();
 
        	try {
        		this.close();
    			copyDataBase();
 
    		} catch (IOException e) {
 
        		throw new Error("Error copying database");
 
        	}
    	}
 
    }
 
    /**
     * Check if the database already exist to avoid re-copying the file each time you open the application.
     * @return true if it exists, false if it doesn't
     */
    private boolean checkDataBase(){
 
    	SQLiteDatabase checkDB = null;
 
    	try{
    		String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
    		checkDB = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null, SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READONLY);
 
    	}catch(SQLiteException e){
 
    		//database does't exist yet.
 
    	}
 
    	if(checkDB != null){
 
    		checkDB.close();
 
    	}
 
    	return checkDB != null ? true : false;
    }
 
    /**
     * Copies your database from your local assets-folder to the just created empty database in the
     * system folder, from where it can be accessed and handled.
     * This is done by transfering bytestream.
     * */
    private void copyDataBase() throws IOException{
 
    	//Open your local db as the input stream
    	InputStream myInput = myContext.getAssets().open(DB_NAME);
 
    	// Path to the just created empty db
    	String outFileName = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
 
    	//Open the empty db as the output stream
    	OutputStream myOutput = new FileOutputStream(outFileName);
 
    	//transfer bytes from the inputfile to the outputfile
    	byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
    	int length;
    	while ((length = myInput.read(buffer))>0){
    		myOutput.write(buffer, 0, length);
    	}
 
    	//Close the streams
    	myOutput.flush();
    	myOutput.close();
    	myInput.close();
 
    }
 
    public void openDataBase() throws SQLException{
 
    	//Open the database
        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) {
 
	}
 
	public Cursor getAllTitles()
	{
	return myDataBase.query("product", new String[] {
	KEY_ROWID,
	KEY_TITLE,
	KEY_CATEGORY,
	KEY_BODY},
	null,
	null,
	null,
	null,
	null);
	}
        // Add your public helper methods to access and get content from the database.
       // You could return cursors by doing "return myDataBase.query(....)" so it'd be easy
       // to you to create adapters for your views.
 
}


JiMMaR and jiminau have mentioned logcat in their replies. I found it very useful in solving my issues trying to connect to a database. I would certainly recommend you get familiar with it as best you can.

If you have no luck, post your logcat details here :)
 
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as odhran had stated, thats nearly EXACTLY how I do it, I have a preloaded database into TextSecretary and is ran just like that, however with a few more get and set methods for adding new away messages and getting what the actual message was.

I'm sorry but there really aren't a ton of GOOD guides on SQLite out there, I've been meaning to get around to making one, but I need to finish this update on Ultimath first.

If you have any questions on that code, let us know I will be sure to answer any questions you may have.
 
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