Exploring Android Persistence and Content Providers
Dave MacLean, Satya Komatineni, Grant Allen · Apress eBooks · 2015
There are a number of ways of saving state in the Android SDK. Some of these are 1) shared preferences, 2) internal files, 3) external files, 4) SQLite, 5) content providers, 6) O/R mapping tools, and 7) network storage in the cloud. We will briefly introduce each of these state-saving options first and then cover in detail managing application state using SQLite and content providers. 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.