Android之ContentProvider总结（The Android ContentProvider summary）.doc

Android之ContentProvider总结（The Android ContentProvider summary） The Android ContentProvider summary 1. Application scenario 1) the ContentProvider provides a unified interface for storing and reading data 2) using the ContentProvider, the application can implement data sharing 3) many of androids built-in data is in the form of ContentProvider for developers to call (video, audio, image, address book, etc.) Introduction of relevant concepts 1) introduction to ContentProvider When an application inherits the ContentProvider class and rewrites the methods used to provide data and store data, it can share its data with other applications. While using other methods can also be foreign share data, but the data access method will be different by way of data storage, such as: using file share data, file operations is required to read and write data. Sharedpreferences is used to share data, and the sharedpreferences API needs to be used to read and write data. The benefit of using the ContentProvider to share data is the unified approach to data access. 2) introduction to Uri class Uri Uri = Uri. Parse ( content: / / com. Changcheng. Provider. Contactprovider/contact ) The query string used in the Content Provider is different from the standard SQL query. A number of operations such as select, add, delete, modify, etc. are performed using a special URI that consists of three parts, content: / /, which represents the path of the data, and an optional ID of the identified data. Here are some sample uris: Content: / / media/internal/images this URI will return the equipment to store all of the pictures The content: / / contacts/people/this URI will return all the contact information on the equipment The content: / / contacts/people / 45 this URI returns a single result (ID in the contact information for the contact record 45) Although this query string format is common, it still looks a bit confusing. Therefore, Android provides a series of helper classes (in the Android. The