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    Title
    Dedication
    Contents at a Glance
    Contents
    About the Authors
    About the Technical Reviewers
    Acknowledgments
    Preface
    Chapter 1: Introducing the Android Computing Platform
    Chapter 2: Setting up your Development Environment
    Chapter 3: Understanding Android Resources
    Chapter 4: Understanding Content Providers
    Exploring Android’s Built-in Providers
    Architecture of Content Providers
    Implementing Content Providers
    Exercising the Book Provider
    Resources
    Summary
    Interview Questions
    Chapter 5: Understanding Intents
    Chapter 6: Building User Interfaces and Using Controls
    Chapter 7: working with menus
    Chapter 8: Fragments for Tablets and More
    Chapter 9: Working with Dialogs
    Chapter 10: Exploring ActionBar
    Chapter 11: Advanced Debugging and Analysis
    Chapter 12: Responding to Configuration Changes
    Chapter 13: Working with Preferences and Saving State
    Chapter 14: Exploring Security and Permissions
    Chapter 15: Building and Consuming Services
    Chapter 16: Exploring Packages
    Chapter 17: Exploring Handlers
    Chapter 18: Exploring the AsyncTask
    Chapter 19: Broadcast Receivers and Long-Running Services
    Chapter 20: Exploring the Alarm Manager
    Chapter 21: Exploring 2D Animation
    Chapter 22: Exploring Maps and Location-based Services
    Chapter 23: Using the Telephony APIs
    Chapter 24: Understanding the Media Frameworks
    Chapter 25: Home Screen Widgets
    Chapter 26: Exploring List Widgets
    Chapter 27: Touch Screens
    Chapter 28: Implementing Drag and Drop
    Chapter 29: Using Sensors
    Chapter 30: Exploring the Contacts API
    Chapter 31: Deploying Your Application: Android Market and Beyond
    Index
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    Summary

    In this chapter, you have learned the following:

    • What content providers are
    • How to discover existing content-provider databases
    • The nature of content URIs, MIME types, and content providers
    • How to use SQLite to construct providers that respond to URIs
    • How to expose data across process boundaries to various applications
    • How to write a new content provider
    • How to access an existing content provider
    • How to use URIMatcher to aid the implementation of content providers


      

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