How to add database to mobile in android?

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I am currently working with android and sqlite database. I have attached the database to eclipse like File explorer/data/data/mypackage/database.. This is working fine. But when i am attaching the database to data/sdcard to run the app on mobile.

I got the null pointer exception. No tableName Abc is found. Can anybody tell me?? Why this is happening and how can i resolve this problem???

http://stackoverflow.com/a/10266523/1289716 – MAC Jul 27 '12 at 09:07 — MAC, Jul 27 '12 at 09:07

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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If you want to ship your application with prebuilt database, you put it in your assets directory and on first run you copy it to /data/data/your.package/databases directory.

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/11601770/1300995 how to copy database from assets directory.

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answered Jul 27 '12 at 09:08

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can you plz explain me how?? Becauseits working fine on emulator and not running on mobile device.So what i have to do for this?? – Narendra Pal Jul 27 '12 at 09:11
Check the link I added to the post. – biegleux Jul 27 '12 at 09:12

How to add database to mobile in android?

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