Exploring the Contacts API
Dave MacLean, Satya Komatineni, Grant Allen · Apress eBooks · 2015
In Chapters 25 and 26, we covered content providers and their close cousins, the loaders. We listed the benefits of exposing data through content provider abstraction. In a content provider abstraction, data is exposed as a series of URLs. These data URLs can be used to read, query, update, insert, and delete. These URLs and their corresponding cursors become the API for that content provider. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.