30th July 2013,
src/com.example.mycontentprovider/MainActivity.java. This file can include each of the fundamental lifecycle methods. We have added two new methods onClickAddName() andonClickRetrieveStudents() to handle user interaction with the application.
package com.example.mycontentprovider;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.content.CursorLoader;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
public void onClickAddName(View view) {
// Add a new student record
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put(StudentsProvider.NAME,
((EditText)findViewById(R.id.txtName)).getText().toString());
values.put(StudentsProvider.GRADE,
((EditText)findViewById(R.id.txtGrade)).getText().toString());
Uri uri = getContentResolver().insert(
StudentsProvider.CONTENT_URI, values);
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),
uri.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
public void onClickRetrieveStudents(View view) {
// Retrieve student records
String URL = "content://com.example.provider.College/students";
Uri students = Uri.parse(URL);
Cursor c = managedQuery(students, null, null, null, "name");
if (c.moveToFirst()) {
do{
Toast.makeText(this,
c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(StudentsProvider._ID)) +
", " + c.getString(c.getColumnIndex( StudentsProvider.NAME)) +
", " + c.getString(c.getColumnIndex( StudentsProvider.GRADE)),
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} while (c.moveToNext());
}
}
}
Create new file StudentsProvider.java under com.example.mycontentprovider package and following is the content of src/com.example.mycontentprovider/StudentsProvider.java:
package com.example.mycontentprovider;
import java.util.HashMap;
import android.content.ContentProvider;
import android.content.ContentUris;
import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.UriMatcher;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.SQLException;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteQueryBuilder;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.text.TextUtils;
public class StudentsProvider extends ContentProvider {
static final String PROVIDER_NAME = "com.example.provider.College";
static final String URL = "content://" + PROVIDER_NAME + "/students";
static final Uri CONTENT_URI = Uri.parse(URL);
static final String _ID = "_id";
static final String NAME = "name";
static final String GRADE = "grade";
private static HashMap<String, String> STUDENTS_PROJECTION_MAP;
static final int STUDENTS = 1;
static final int STUDENT_ID = 2;
static final UriMatcher uriMatcher;
static{
uriMatcher = new UriMatcher(UriMatcher.NO_MATCH);
uriMatcher.addURI(PROVIDER_NAME, "students", STUDENTS);
uriMatcher.addURI(PROVIDER_NAME, "students/#", STUDENT_ID);
}
/**
* Database specific constant declarations
*/
private SQLiteDatabase db;
static final String DATABASE_NAME = "College";
static final String STUDENTS_TABLE_NAME = "students";
static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 1;
static final String CREATE_DB_TABLE =
" CREATE TABLE " + STUDENTS_TABLE_NAME +
" (_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, " +
" name TEXT NOT NULL, " +
" grade TEXT NOT NULL);";
/**
* Helper class that actually creates and manages
* the provider's underlying data repository.
*/
private static class DatabaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {
DatabaseHelper(Context context){
super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null, DATABASE_VERSION);
}
@Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db)
{
db.execSQL(CREATE_DB_TABLE);
}
@Override
public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion,
int newVersion) {
db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " + STUDENTS_TABLE_NAME);
onCreate(db);
}
}
@Override
public boolean onCreate() {
Context context = getContext();
DatabaseHelper dbHelper = new DatabaseHelper(context);
/**
* Create a write able database which will trigger its
* creation if it doesn't already exist.
*/
db = dbHelper.getWritableDatabase();
return (db == null)? false:true;
}
@Override
public Uri insert(Uri uri, ContentValues values) {
/**
* Add a new student record
*/
long rowID = db.insert( STUDENTS_TABLE_NAME, "", values);
/**
* If record is added successfully
*/
if (rowID > 0)
{
Uri _uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(CONTENT_URI, rowID);
getContext().getContentResolver().notifyChange(_uri, null);
return _uri;
}
throw new SQLException("Failed to add a record into " + uri);
}
@Override
public Cursor query(Uri uri, String[] projection, String selection,
String[] selectionArgs, String sortOrder) {
SQLiteQueryBuilder qb = new SQLiteQueryBuilder();
qb.setTables(STUDENTS_TABLE_NAME);
switch (uriMatcher.match(uri)) {
case STUDENTS:
qb.setProjectionMap(STUDENTS_PROJECTION_MAP);
break;
case STUDENT_ID:
qb.appendWhere( _ID + "=" + uri.getPathSegments().get(1));
break;
default:
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown URI " + uri);
}
if (sortOrder == null || sortOrder == ""){
/**
* By default sort on student names
*/
sortOrder = NAME;
}
Cursor c = qb.query(db, projection, selection, selectionArgs,
null, null, sortOrder);
/**
* register to watch a content URI for changes
*/
c.setNotificationUri(getContext().getContentResolver(), uri);
return c;
}
@Override
public int delete(Uri uri, String selection, String[] selectionArgs) {
int count = 0;
switch (uriMatcher.match(uri)){
case STUDENTS:
count = db.delete(STUDENTS_TABLE_NAME, selection, selectionArgs);
break;
case STUDENT_ID:
String id = uri.getPathSegments().get(1);
count = db.delete( STUDENTS_TABLE_NAME, _ID + " = " + id +
(!TextUtils.isEmpty(selection) ? " AND (" +
selection + ')' : ""), selectionArgs);
break;
default:
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown URI " + uri);
}
getContext().getContentResolver().notifyChange(uri, null);
return count;
}
@Override
public int update(Uri uri, ContentValues values, String selection,
String[] selectionArgs) {
int count = 0;
switch (uriMatcher.match(uri)){
case STUDENTS:
count = db.update(STUDENTS_TABLE_NAME, values,
selection, selectionArgs);
break;
case STUDENT_ID:
count = db.update(STUDENTS_TABLE_NAME, values, _ID +
" = " + uri.getPathSegments().get(1) +
(!TextUtils.isEmpty(selection) ? " AND (" +
selection + ')' : ""), selectionArgs);
break;
default:
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown URI " + uri );
}
getContext().getContentResolver().notifyChange(uri, null);
return count;
}
@Override
public String getType(Uri uri) {
switch (uriMatcher.match(uri)){
/**
* Get all student records
*/
case STUDENTS:
return "vnd.android.cursor.dir/vnd.example.students";
/**
* Get a particular student
*/
case STUDENT_ID:
return "vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.example.students";
default:
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported URI: " + uri);
}
}
}
Following will the modified content of AndroidManifest.xml file. Here we have added <provider…/> tag to include our content provider:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.mycontentprovider"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="8"
android:targetSdkVersion="17" />
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name="com.example.mycontentprovider.MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<provider android:name="StudentsProvider"
android:authorities="com.example.provider.College">
</provider>
</application>
</manifest>
Following will be the content of res/layout/activity_main.xml file to include a button to broadcast your custom intent:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Name" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/txtName"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Grade" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/txtGrade"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" />
<Button
android:text="Add Name"
android:id="@+id/btnAdd"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="onClickAddName" />
<Button
android:text="Retrieve Students"
android:id="@+id/btnRetrieve"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="onClickRetrieveStudents" />
</LinearLayout>
Make sure you have following content of res/values/strings.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="app_name">MyContentProvider</string>
<string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
<string name="hello_world">Hello world!</string>
</resources>;
Let’s try to run our modified MyContentProvider application we just created. I assume you had created your AVD while doing environment setup. To run the app from Eclipse, open one of your project’s activity files and click Run 
icon from the toolbar. Eclipse installs the app on your AVD and starts it and if everything is fine with your setup and application, it will display following Emulator window, be patience because it may take sometime based on your computer speed:
Now let’s enter student Name and Grade and finally click on Add Name button, this will add student record in the database and will flash a message at the bottom showing ContentProvider URI along with record number added in the database. This operation makes use of our insert() method. Let’s repeat this process to add few more students in the database of our content provider.
Once you are done with adding records in the database, now its time to ask ContentProvider to give us those records back, so let’s click Retrieve Students button which will fetch and display all the records one by one which is as per our the implementation of our query() method.
You can write activities against update and delete operations by providing callback functions inMainActivity.java file and then modify user interface to have buttons for update and deleted operations in the same way as we have done for add and read operations.
This way you can use existing Content Provider like Address Book or you can use Content Provider concept in developing nice database oriented applications where you can perform all sort of database operations like read, write, update and delete as explained above in the example.
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