Question

I am trying to add SQLCipher to my project. I am able to link the jar files to the project but there is problem linking the .so files provided.

Due to that I am getting UnSatisfiedLinkError when i try to open the DB.

Can anyone please let me know the best possible way to add .so files to the project and get it running.

Answer 1

In addition to jar files you need to include .so files. In my project I have:

jar files in project_root/libs/
.so files in project_root/libs/armeabi/

Also make sure that you have added the .jar files properly. Go to Project Properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries tab make sure commonc-codec.jar, gueva-r09.jar, sqlcipher.jar are added there.

EDIT

1) Add a single sqlcipher.jar and a few .so’s to the application libs directory
2) Update the import path from android.database.sqlite.* to info.guardianproject.database.sqlite.* in any source files that reference it. The original android.database.Cursor can still be used unchanged.
3) Init the database in onCreate() and pass a variable argument to the open database method with a password*:

    SQLiteDatabase.loadLibs(this); //first init the db libraries with the context
    SQLiteOpenHelper.getWritableDatabase(“thisismysecret”):