I have a database file reset in the assets file.
How can I use SQLCipher to encrypt the database in android?
I have a database file reset in the assets file. How can I use
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I have a database file reset in the assets file.
How can I use SQLCipher to encrypt the database in android?
This is going to be a bit complicated. Since the database file format is different between SQLite and SQLCipher for Android, and since you want to ship an unencrypted database, you will have to do a few things.
First, I’d get
SQLiteAssetHelpergoing, to deliver the unencrypted database to your environment.Then, use standard SQLCipher for Android to create an empty-but-encrypted database.
Next, you will need to implement the code to copy the data out of the packaged-but-unencrypted database and insert it into the empty-but-encrypted database.
Once that is all done, you can close and delete the packaged-but-unencrypted database and just use the encrypted one.
This might make a useful extension to
SQLiteAssetHelper, someday…