Question

I need help with comparing a column to a string. There is a column in the android database and it stores on and off in strings. I need to compare the column to “On” string and if there is any On in that column i need it to return true and if there is no on in the database return false how do i do this ?

my code

public boolean QuickTime(){

      String myQuery = "SELECT * FROM DATABASE_TABLE_QUICK WHERE ALARM_ID_QUICK LIKE 'On' ";
      Cursor mCursor = databaseConnect.rawQuery(myQuery, null);
      if(mCursor.getCount()>0)  //if at least one record contains 'on'
          return true;
      else
          return false; //no record was found with the word 'on'
  }

Answer 1

an easy (not the best) way to do it is with Rawquery .
so all you would have to do is something like:

private boolean containsOn(SQLiteDatabase mSQLiteDatabase){
    String myQuery = "SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE status LIKE 'on' ";
    Cursor mCursor = mSQLiteDatabase.rawQuery(myQuery, null);
    mCursor.
    if(mCursor.getCount()>0)  //if at least one record contains 'on'
        return true;
    else
        return false; //no record was found with the word 'on'
}

all you would have to do is pass your sqlLite database, change the table name and the status column for your column name.