本书深入浅出地介绍了在Android应用开发中高效使用SQLite数据库的方法和技巧,涵盖数据存储、查询优化及安全策略等内容,是开发者提升应用性能不可或缺的参考书。
Battle-Tested Strategies for Storing, Managing, and Sharing Android Data
Android™ Database Best Practices goes well beyond API documentation to offer strategic advice about how to handle data in an Android application and the tools needed to develop productively. This arms the developer with a trove of solutions to nearly any problem an application may face involving data. Mastering the concepts in this book are therefore essential for any developer who wants to create professional Android applications.
This is the first guide to focus on one of the most critical aspects of Android development: how to efficiently store, retrieve, manage, and share information from your app’s internal database. Through real-world code examples that you can use in your own apps, you’ll learn how to take full advantage of SQLite and the database-related classes on Android.
A part of Addison-Wesley’s Android™ Deep Dive series for experienced Android developers, this book draws on Adam Strouds extensive experience leading cutting-edge app projects.
Stroud reviews the core database theory and SQL techniques needed to efficiently build, manipulate, and read SQLite databases. He explores SQLite in detail, illuminates Android’s APIs for database interaction, and shares modern best practices for working with databases in the Android environment.
Through a complete case study, you’ll learn how to design your data access layer to simplify all facets of data management and avoid unwanted technical debt. You’ll also find detailed solutions for common challenges in building data-enabled Android apps, including issues associated with threading, remote data access, and showing data to users.
You will
Discover how SQLite database differs from other relational databases
Use SQL DDL to add structure to a database, and use DML to manipulate data
Define and work with SQLite data types
Persist highly structured data for fast, efficient access
Master Android classes for create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations and database queries
Share data within or between apps via content providers
Master efficient UI strategies for displaying data while accounting for threading issues
Use Android’s Intents API to pass data between activities when starting a new activity or service
Achieve two-way communication between apps and remote web APIs
Manage the complexities of app-to-server communication, and avoid common problems
Use Android’s new Data Binding API to write less code and improve performance
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Relational Databases
Chapter 2: An Introduction to SQL
Chapter 3: An Introduction to SQLite
Chapter 4: SQLite in Android
Chapter 5: Working with Databases in Android
Chapter 6: Content Providers
Chapter 7: Databases and the UI
Chapter 8: Sharing Data with Intents
Chapter 9: Communicating with Web APIs
Chapter 10: Data Binding