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Android Android Data Persistence CRUD Operations with SQLite Opening the Database

Posted by Dalton Coble
Dalton Coble
6,489 Points

I did it just as the video did (I think?) but it is not working. help?

I did what the video did and the code challenge asked, or so I thought. please help

CodeChallenge.java 
PetSQLiteHelper petSQLiteHelper = new PetSQLiteHelper(context);
SQLiteDatabase database;

    private PetSqliteDatabase open() {
        return PetSqlLiteHelper.getWritableDatabase();
    }

1 Answer

Greg Schmidt
Greg Schmidt
5,908 Points

Digging outside the video I found getWriteableDatabase() will open a database. The other part to look at is that we want to use the new PetSQLiteHelper which is petSQLiteHelper. so:

database = petSQLiteHelper.getWritableDatabase();