[android-developers] Re: ? Best way of storing text

2011-03-30 Thread William Moore
Define large amount. A bunch of 1KB files? A few 1MB files?  Several gigabyte files? That is the question, what would be the best way, not sure how many. It would be in the MBs. GBs would be to large for Android I think. Note: I want it to be locally stored. So no connection is needed

[android-developers] Re: ? Best way of storing text

2011-03-30 Thread William Moore
For example, you could store it as text files, compressed into a .zip file, along with a SQLite database with the metadata (including section boundaries within the files). For large amounts of text, this would be much more compact than storing the text in the SQLite database directly. So when

[android-developers] ? Best way of storing text

2011-03-28 Thread William Moore
I am trying to write an application that would have a large amount of text. It would also present information in tables and some pictures. It would present either small parts of the text, like sections, or the whole thing. I need it to be searchable. Also has to be able to add more of these texts.