Question

my android application needs to read from a database on the web and I have just no idea how am I supposed to do it.
I tried the following code:

SQLiteDatabase.CursorFactory cf = new SQLiteDatabase.CursorFactory() {

        @Override
        public Cursor newCursor(SQLiteDatabase db, SQLiteCursorDriver masterQuery,
                String editTable, SQLiteQuery query) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            return null;
        }
    };
     SQLiteDatabase db =SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase("http://dakatora.co.il/locallhost", cf, SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READONLY);

but it throws an exception

can someone please help me?

Answer 1

You can not access database directly from an android device (without a lot of hard work and “hackish” ways). You should never use a direct connection to a outside database. Using a web service is a a lot safer.

Also you could try something like this: Interacting with external SQLite databases from Android.