Is there a nice way in Android to see if a column exists in a table in the application database? (I know there are questions similar to this one already, but there don’t seem to be any that are Android specific.)
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Is there a nice way in Android to see if a column exists in a table in the application database? (I know there are questions similar to this one already, but there don’t seem to be any that are Android specific.)
cursor.getColumnIndex(String columnName)returns -1 if, the column doesn’t exist. So I would basically perform a simple query like “SELECT * FROM xxx LIMIT 0,1” and use the cursor to determine if the column, you are looking for, existsOR
you can try to query the column “SELECT theCol FROM xxx” and catch an exception