Chapter 10. Understanding Content Providers
In this chapter, we are going to take a look at how to provide content within your application. We'll cover how to share that content, and how to access and modify the data that represents that content.
We have gotten significantly more advanced as we have progressed from chapter to chapter, and this chapter is no different. Data access is significantly more complex than event handling and UI design. This is because it involves database design and requesting security permissions for database access. In fact, starting with this chapter, we will need to modify the application's AndroidManifest.xml file, so be warned that we are getting into some fairly complicated concepts and code here.
We'll begin with ...
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