If you're looking to interact with the built-in Contacts or MediaStore databases, you should interact through the ContentProvider abstraction layer. The underlying database schema can change, but these public APIs will continue working across releases:
http://d.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html http://d.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.html http://d.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore.html j On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:42 PM, PJ <pjbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > If there isn't any documentation, you could always get the schema > directly from the source. > > Read the section "Examining sqlite3 Databases from a Remote Shell" > from the Dev Guide: > http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html#sqlite > > This describes how to view databases for an application, but this > technique also works for examining the system's databases, too. > You just need to know where they are, e.g. try: # sqlite3 /data/system/ > accounts.db > > Hope this helps! > -- PJ > > > On Nov 1, 9:30 pm, richard <xiaofeng.richardwei2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I want to build my own cloned databases of all or some of the >> Android native databases like Contacts, Calllogs, Mediastore, >> Settings, etc. I want to know wheher it is possible and How I can >> know the database schemas of these databases? Is there any >> documentation on this? >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> regards >> Xiaofeng > > -- > 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 > -- Jeff Sharkey jshar...@android.com -- 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
