What to do with Cursor after a SQLite query?

Question

This is my first time using a database and I'm not really sure how this works. I made the database and made a query that returns a cursor and... now what? What is a cursor, really? Can I just use that to navigate through my data or do I have to put it in an ArrayList or ListActivity or what?

Answer 1

You need to iterate the cursor to get your results.

Use cursor.moveToFirst() and/or cursor.moveToNext() (with a while loop). Then you can use the getX() method, like cursor.getInt() or cursor.getString().

For example, ir your are expecting one result from your query:

if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
    String name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex('NAME'));
    int age = cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex('AGE'));
} else {
    // oops nothing found!
}