Question

So at the moment I have a simple reminder app that you enter some details, select a data and time and then the app reminds you on the selected date/time.

I now want to be able to add functionality to select categories which I want to select from a spinner, which is populated from separate database table – I will be adding a class to add new categories.

Is an sqlite database the best way of doing this or is there an easier alternative? I assume I will need to make foreign keys/triggers?

Any advice is much appreciated.

Answer 1

Yes, I think the best way is to use sqlite3, especially if you’re mutating data.

Spinner is an AdapterView like ListView or GridView, so you can just use a CursorAdapter (or possibly SimpleCursorAdapter) to populate it with data from your database.

This looks like a decent tutorial for creating a SimpleCursorAdapter. In your own code you would call spinner.setAdapter(mySimpleCursorAdapter);