I have an app that, when notified by a ContentObserver of a change to a ContentProvider, attempts to query the provider on a background thread. This causes an SecurityException to be thrown: 8-10...

I'm building an App which relies heavily on the user's contacts. I've created an Account and create RawContacts on behalf of this account when needed. And I use SyncAdapter and things are great. ...

I have set up Gradle to add package name suffix to my debug app so I could have release version that I'm using and debug version on one phone. I was referencing this: http://tools.android.com/tech-...

How is using a ContentProviderClient obtained with ContentResolver#acquireContentProviderClient(...) any different from ContentResolver#acquireUnstableContentProviderClient(...)? It seems like I w...

I am creating an application in which I want to capture a image and then I want to send that image in the email as a attachment. I am opening a camera using android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAG...

In my app I have a ContentProvider attached to a table in a database with a CursorLoader that fills a ListView in one of my Activities. This table is filled empty by default and gets filled with us...

This is my first time using a content provider but I followed the developer docs but when I run the program it tells me failed to find provider info here is my manifest <manifest xmlns:android...

Recently Google added the Photos app for Google+ (plus) and it shows up when you launch an Intent to choose an image. However, if I select an image from Google+ Photos and try to use it in my appli...

I have an Android ContentProvider which allows to do LEFT OUTER JOIN queries on a SQLite database. Let's assume in the database I have 3 tables, Users, Articles and Comments. The ContentProvider i...

I have an activity ActitvityA that holds a listview populated by a CursorLoader. I want to switch to ActivityB and change some data and see those changes reflected in listview in ActivityA. public...

I have an app available in Pro (paid) & Free (add supported) versions. Both versions are signed with the same key store, but each one with its own key alias. Now, I'd like to develop a plugin c...

I have a problem with facebook SDK version 4.0.0 -> I am trying to set up two different flavors of my app - staging and production. Everything works as fine as expected but I get INSTALL_FAILED_CO...

Followed https://developer.android.com/training/secure-file-sharing/index.html and able to share files in the internal directory(/data/data/package/files/xxx/) of app to client app using fileprovid...

Is there a way to limit the number of rows returned from content provider? I found this solution, however, it did not work for me. All of the rows are still being returned. Uri uri = Playlis...

I want to implement a SyncAdapter for a content I want to synchronize with a server. It seems that to do so, you need a ContentProvider registered for the authority you specify in the SyncAdapter X...

I have some files stored in my application's internal storage that I would like to open in an external application (sending an image to the Gallery for viewing, for example.) I've set up a FileProv...

i have done SQLite database programming for Android, but i dont know anything about Content-Provider except this: "As i have referred Android Developer page , Android SDK explained about "Content-p...

I tried running the program code soundclouddroid https://code.google.com/p/soundclouddroid/source/browse/ 1.2.2. I had another problem before I settled on Stackoverflow but now I have one and can n...

I'm trying to: Display a list of contacts Let the user search through them by typing a query Limit search results only to a specific Google/Gmail account. This is how I build the URI for the ...

I'm querying the ContactsContract.Data table to find phone records. I get an error when I create a new CursorLoader: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid column deleted My code: import ...

As I understand from the docs, one SyncAdapter defined in a SyncService is limited to receive only one ContentProvider authority to work on. But, at the same time, it has access to ContentResolve...

Jake Wharton mentioned this library in a recent talk and it looks like a great way to avoid a load of boilerplate so I gave it a go. But without any success. https://github.com/SimonVT/schematic ...

I have a requirement to send a apk file through share Intent and I have also implemented without any hassle. But the problem arises only while sending apk via GMail, I am getting permission denied ...

I know you are tempted to mark this a duplicate but wait, let's go through this again with my detailed (but failed) attempts. Strategy 1: Algorithm: Answer The first time the onChange is fire...

I'm wondering which is the best approach to access my application database: use a Content Provider, or implement my DAO by hand? From my latest investigations, seems that Content Provider, even for...