ANDROID CONTENT PROVIDER EXPLAINED

Usages and examples

By: Shady Yehia Selim

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IN FEW WORDS

‘do something’ Filters

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THE BEST DESCRIPTION

When the android system or another application wants to do a specific task, it will broadcast an intent saying “can anyone do this for me“

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SO IT NEEDS

Intent to describe the “mime-type” for sharing content

Broadcasting listener to answer and serve, or broadcast sender for the content to be shared

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IT CAN BE USED TO ….

Allow to collect data from different sources, and send one dataset result

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IT CAN BE USED TO ….

Support other apps, widgets, search, and others, with the same results

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IT CAN BE USED TO ….

Control single app roles access

Control different apps access permissions to the same data source

Control apps data source, so if the host data server was changed, you won’t have to update all the apps, only the content provider data source

Help implementing new trends and security controls like, Android for Work, Android for Education, BYOD, MDM, MAM, and MCM.

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IN THE LATEST ANDROID VERSION

With Android 7.1 (API level 25), the Android SDK includes the Commit Content API, which provides a universal way for IMEs to send images and other rich content directly to a text editor in an app. The API is also available in v13 Support Library as of revision 25.0.0.

In English you can use images in your keyboard

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/image-keyboard.html

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RESOURCES

http://blog.blundellapps.co.uk/add-your-app-to-the-android-menu/

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-basics.html

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ContentProvider.html

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-creating.html

https://developer.android.com/training/sharing/shareaction.html

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RESOURCES

https://developer.android.com/training/sharing/send.html

https://developer.android.com/training/testing/integration-testing/content-provider-testing.html

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/android/android_content_providers.htm

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidSQLite/article.html

http://www.grokkingandroid.com/android-tutorial-writing-your-own-content-provider/

https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android-fundamentals-working-with-content-providers--mobile-5549

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