Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Copyright 2013 Wajdi Hh "wajdihh@gmail.com". * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import android.database.Cursor; import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase; import java.util.ArrayList; public class Main { /** * to query columns names of a Table from database * @author wajdihh * @param pDatabase * @param pTableName * @return list of columns */ public static ArrayList<String> getTableColumnsNames(SQLiteDatabase pDatabase, String pTableName) { ArrayList<String> lListOfColumns = new ArrayList<String>(); Cursor lCursor = pDatabase.rawQuery("PRAGMA table_info(" + pTableName + ")", null); while (lCursor.moveToNext()) lListOfColumns.add(lCursor.getString(1)); return lListOfColumns; } }