Question

I am trying to change the code of the Searchable Dictionary example (full code here), so that I can modify “description.txt” and it will update it when I build the program from Eclipse to my application.

I think it doesn’t take the modifications into account after the first time because the dictionary is already loaded, with this function:

    private void loadDictionary() {
        new Thread(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                try {
                    loadWords();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
                }
            }
        }).start();
    }

Anybody knows how to change this, so that it always load the new “definition.txt” and that I can keep modifying it without having to reinstall the app all the time?

Answer 1

In this specific code, the solution was to increment the database version in DictionaryDatabase.java:

private static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 3;