sylvestercaro...@gmail.com wrote: > I have a similar question. Basically I have an app with several > activities, each needs to read different data from a common local > SQLite db. This data doesn't have to be accessed outside of the > application itself - hence I decided against using a content provider. > I was thinking of using the application instance to hold the database > instance, as I thought that each activity would be able to access this > to retrieve it's data (I didn't want to open and close the db in each > activity for performance reasons) - but I'm not sure if the activity > can reference this application instance.
It can. However, AFAIK, database connections to SQLite are cheap, so you may just want to have each activity get its own connection. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, $35/Year --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---