If any of your tables have relationships between them, you almost certainly want them in one content provider to be able to do joins and other complicated operations across them. Look at the contacts provider protocol for an example.
http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/provider/Contacts.html And it is entirely possible for one .apk to have multiple top-level content providers. On Aug 26, 6:50 pm, Lonzo1968 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Mark, > > I got you book from commonsware.com. I like what you have done so far, > especially the detail on the layouts. > > What is the best architecture for this ContentProvider situation? > Should I have a Provider for each table or muliple tables in a single > provider. Maybe I'm missing something here, since I'm used to very > different database layers (like the DAO pattern for example). > > On Aug 25, 5:48 pm, "Mark Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Since the ContentProvider interface has a > > > single insert, update, query, delete methods, and as far as I can see, > > > you can only include one ContentProvider in your application. > > > ContentProviders are managed by their MIME type/URI patterns. An > > application should be able to have several providers, or a singleprovider > > that handles several sorts of data. > > > If you want a single ContentProvider to handle multiple URI patterns, use > > a UriMatcher: > > >http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/content/UriMatcher.html > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 1.1 Published! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new Android 0.9 SDK beta! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
