5.10. Part 7: Content Providers

In this part, covered in Chapter 12, we’ll revisit content providers and refactor our database code to use them. To demonstrate that it all works, we’ll throw in an Android App Widget.

5.10.1. Status Data

Our status data is OK the way it is if nobody else cares about it. But what if we want to expose some of this data to the rest of the system? After all, other applications might leverage our friends’ timelines in new and creative ways. To do that, we’ll create a content provider and expose our status data.