Android provides a way for you to expose even your private data to other applications — with a content provider. A content provider is an optional component that exposes read/write access to your application data, subject to whatever restrictions you want to impose. For more information about using content providers, see the Content Providers documentation.

The SharedPreferences class provides a general framework that allows you to save and retrieve persistent key-value pairs of primitive data types. You can use SharedPreferences to save any primitive data: booleans, floats, ints, longs, and strings. This data will persist across user sessions (even if your application is killed).

User Preferences

Shared preferences are not strictly for saving "user preferences," such as what ringtone a user has chosen. If you're interested in creating user preferences for your application, seePreferenceActivity, which provides an Activity framework for you to create user preferences, which will be automatically persisted (using shared preferences).

You can save files directly on the device's internal storage. By default, files saved to the internal storage are private to your application and other applications cannot access them (nor can the user). When the user uninstalls your application, these files are removed.

If you'd like to cache some data, rather than store it persistently, you should use getCacheDir() to open a Filethat represents the internal directory where your application should save temporary cache files.

When the device is low on internal storage space, Android may delete these cache files to recover space. However, you should not rely on the system to clean up these files for you. You should always maintain the cache files yourself and stay within a reasonable limit of space consumed, such as 1MB. When the user uninstalls your application, these files are removed.

Every Android-compatible device supports a shared "external storage" that you can use to save files. This can be a removable storage media (such as an SD card) or an internal (non-removable) storage. Files saved to the external storage are world-readable and can be modified by the user when they enable USB mass storage to transfer files on a computer.

注意：保存在外部存储（SD卡）上的文件对所有的应用程序都是可读的，而保存在内部存储的文件默认对别的应用程序是不可访问的

Caution: External files can disappear if the user mounts the external storage on a computer or removes the media, and there's no security enforced upon files you save to the external storage. All applications can read and write files placed on the external storage and the user can remove them.

4.2、Checking media availability

Before you do any work with the external storage, you should always call getExternalStorageState() to check whether the media is available. The media might be mounted to a computer, missing, read-only, or in some other state. For example, here's how you can check the availability:

boolean mExternalStorageAvailable = false;

boolean mExternalStorageWriteable = false;

String state = Environment.getExternalStorageState();

if (Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED.equals(state)) {

/* We can read and write the media*/

mExternalStorageAvailable = mExternalStorageWriteable = true;

} else if (Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED_READ_ONLY.equals(state)) {

/* We can only read the media*/

mExternalStorageAvailable = true;

mExternalStorageWriteable = false;

} else {

/* Something else is wrong. It may be one of many other states, but all we need*/

/* to know is we can neither read nor write*/

mExternalStorageAvailable = mExternalStorageWriteable = false;

}

This example checks whether the external storage is available to read and write. ThegetExternalStorageState() method returns other states that you might want to check, such as whether the media is being shared (connected to a computer), is missing entirely, has been removed badly, etc. You can use these to notify the user with more information when your application needs to access the media.

4.3、Accessing files on external storage

If you're using API Level 8 or greater, use getExternalFilesDir() to open a File that represents the external storage directory where you should save your files. This method takes a type parameter that specifies the type of subdirectory you want, such as DIRECTORY_MUSIC and DIRECTORY_RINGTONES (pass null to receive the root of your application's file directory). This method will create the appropriate directory if necessary. By specifying the type of directory, you ensure that the Android's media scanner will properly categorize your files in the system (for example, ringtones are identified as ringtones and not music). If the user uninstalls your application, this directory and all its contents will be deleted.

If you're using API Level 7 or lower, use getExternalStorageDirectory(), to open a File representing the root of the external storage. You should then write your data in the following directory:

/Android/data/<package_name>/files/

The <package_name> is your Java-style package name, such as "com.example.android.app". If the user's device is running API Level 8 or greater and they uninstall your application, this directory and all its contents will be deleted.

4.4、Saving shared files

f you want to save files that are not specific to your application and that should not be deleted when your application is uninstalled, save them to one of the public directories on the external storage. These directories lay at the root of the external storage, such as Music/, Pictures/, Ringtones/, and others.

If you're using API Level 7 or lower, usegetExternalStorageDirectory() to open a File that represents the root of the external storage, then save your shared files in one of the following directories:

Music/ - Media scanner classifies all media found here as user music.

Podcasts/ - Media scanner classifies all media found here as a podcast.

Ringtones/ - Media scanner classifies all media found here as a ringtone.

Alarms/ - Media scanner classifies all media found here as an alarm sound.

Notifications/ - Media scanner classifies all media found here as a notification sound.

Pictures/ - All photos (excluding those taken with the camera).

Movies/ - All movies (excluding those taken with the camcorder).

Download/ - Miscellaneous downloads.

4.5、Saving cache files

f you're using API Level 8 or greater, use getExternalCacheDir() to open a File that represents the external storage directory where you should save cache files. If the user uninstalls your application, these files will be automatically deleted. However, during the life of your application, you should manage these cache files and remove those that aren't needed in order to preserve file space.

If you're using API Level 7 or lower, use getExternalStorageDirectory() to open a File that represents the root of the external storage, then write your cache data in the following directory:

/Android/data/<package_name>/cache/

The <package_name> is your Java-style package name, such as "com.example.android.app".

Android provides full support for SQLite databases. Any databases you create will be accessible by name to any class in the application, but not outside the application.

The recommended method to create a new SQLite database is to create a subclass of SQLiteOpenHelper and override the onCreate() method, in which you can execute a SQLite command to create tables in the database. For example:

Android does not impose any limitations beyond the standard SQLite concepts. We do recommend including an autoincrement value key field that can be used as a unique ID to quickly find a record. This is not required for private data, but if you implement acontent provider, you must include a unique ID using theBaseColumns._ID constant.

You can execute SQLite queries using the SQLiteDatabasequery() methods, which accept various query parameters, such as the table to query, the projection, selection, columns, grouping, and others. For complex queries, such as those that require column aliases, you should use SQLiteQueryBuilder, which provides several convienent methods for building queries.

Every SQLite query will return a Cursor that points to all the rows found by the query. The Cursor is always the mechanism with which you can navigate results from a database query and read rows and columns.

Database debugging

The Android SDK includes a sqlite3 database tool that allows you to browse table contents, run SQL commands, and perform other useful functions on SQLite databases. See Examining sqlite3 databases from a remote shell to learn how to run this tool.

六、网络存储

You can use the network (when it's available) to store and retrieve data on your own web-based services. To do network operations, use classes in the following packages: