Android Open Source - Wordilizer Data Base Helper

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Java Source Code

package com.wordilizer;
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import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.SQLException;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper;

public class DataBaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper{
 
    //The Android's default system path of your application database.
    @SuppressLint("SdCardPath")
  private static String DB_PATH = "/data/data/com.wordilizer/databases/";
 
    private static String DB_NAME = "Dict";
 
    private SQLiteDatabase myDataBase; 
 
    private final Context myContext;
 
    /**
     * Constructor
     * Takes and keeps a reference of the passed context in order to access to the application assets and resources.
     * @param context
     */
    public DataBaseHelper(Context context) {
 
      super(context, DB_NAME, null, 1);
        this.myContext = context;
    }  
 
  /**
     * Creates a empty database on the system and rewrites it with your own database.
     * */
    public void createDataBase() throws IOException{
 
      boolean dbExist = checkDataBase();
 
      if(dbExist){
        //do nothing - database already exist
      }else{
 
        //By calling this method and empty database will be created into the default system path
               //of your application so we are gonna be able to overwrite that database with our database.
          this.getReadableDatabase();
 
          try {
 
          copyDataBase();
 
        } catch (IOException e) {
 
            throw new Error("Error copying database");
 
          }
      }
 
    }
 
    /**
     * Check if the database already exist to avoid re-copying the file each time you open the application.
     * @return true if it exists, false if it doesn't
     */
    private boolean checkDataBase(){
 
      SQLiteDatabase checkDB = null;
 
      try{
        String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
        checkDB = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null, SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READONLY);
 
      }catch(SQLiteException e){
 
        //database does't exist yet.
 
      }
 
      if(checkDB != null){
 
        checkDB.close();
 
      }
 
      return checkDB != null ? true : false;
    }
 
    /**
     * Copies your database from your local assets-folder to the just created empty database in the
     * system folder, from where it can be accessed and handled.
     * This is done by transfering bytestream.
     * */
    private void copyDataBase() throws IOException{
 
      //Open your local db as the input stream
      InputStream myInput = myContext.getAssets().open(DB_NAME);
 
      // Path to the just created empty db
      String outFileName = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
 
      //Open the empty db as the output stream
      OutputStream myOutput = new FileOutputStream(outFileName);
 
      //transfer bytes from the inputfile to the outputfile
      byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
      int length;
      while ((length = myInput.read(buffer))>0){
        myOutput.write(buffer, 0, length);
      }
 
      //Close the streams
      myOutput.flush();
      myOutput.close();
      myInput.close();
 
    }
 
    public void openDataBase() throws SQLException{
 
      //Open the database
        String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
      myDataBase = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null, SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READONLY);
 
    }
 
    @Override
  public synchronized void close() {
 
          if(myDataBase != null)
            myDataBase.close();
 
          super.close();
 
  }
 
  @Override
  public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
 
  }
 
  @Override
  public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
 
  }
 
        // Add your public helper methods to access and get content from the database.
       // You could return cursors by doing "return myDataBase.query(....)" so it'd be easy
       // to you to create adapters for your views.
 
}
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