I am creating a Service in which there are three Threads :
- GPS location tracker that will write location values into a database.
- Sender Thread that both reads and writes into the database.
- Receiver thread that too reads and writes to the database.
Now I have seen posts like these in which it is said that only one Helper class should be available as well as only on DB connection. I have tried to implement only one instance of the Helper class by using the Singleton pattern however I am utterly confused about how to go about creating only one DB connection that can achieve the three tasks I mentioned earlier. Here's my implementation of the Helper class.
package com.example.userpc.roadtracker;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper;
/**
* Created by USER PC on 5/21/2016.
*/
public class DatabaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {
private static final String DATABASE_NAME="location_service.db";
private static final int VERSION=1;
private static final String DB_CREATE="CREATE TABLE `location_service`.`location` ( `id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , `longitude` DOUBLE NOT NULL , `latitude` DOUBLE NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE (`longitude`, `latitude`)) ENGINE = MyISAM;";
private static SQLiteDatabase mDatabase=null;
private static DatabaseHelper mDatabaseHelper=null;
private DatabaseHelper(Context context) {
super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null, VERSION);
}
public static DatabaseHelper getInstance(Context context)
{
if(mDatabaseHelper==null)
return new DatabaseHelper(context);
else
return mDatabaseHelper;
}
public SQLiteDatabase getUsableDataBase()
{
if(mDatabase==null)
return this.getWritableDatabase();
else
return mDatabase;
}
@Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase sqLiteDatabase) {
sqLiteDatabase.execSQL(DB_CREATE);
}
@Override
public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase sqLiteDatabase, int i, int i1) {
}
}
Thanks in advance.