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I'm an android developer trying to explore some databases. Normally the sqlite database is about the only database that I see around in Android .

Recently I've stumbled across an app that is running on .pdb database files which piqued my interest.

I've downloaded the .pdb files but I cannot seem to access or read the files normally. I'm very curious about the .pdb files and why is not sqlite files ?

Anyone has any ideas ? THanks !

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  • What do you see when you open the file with regular text editor? – Caner Nov 17 '11 at 13:25
  • There are 80+ pdb rules in total split into two different groups of pdb files , one of which is named file_00x.pdb (which opens up to be gibberish) and second group of files named file_00x_strings.pdb (which opens up to be html annotations with English texts) . – jamen Nov 17 '11 at 14:12
  • My apologies for a truncated msg as i was travelling. There is a typo in the above msg , 80+ pdb files , not rules. As described earlier , from my limited understanding .pdb files is also used for some ebooks which makes sense for android apps to use it as a format for quick browsing. But I just couldn;t put anything together to make it readable ... any thoughts ? – jamen Nov 17 '11 at 14:57

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PDB files are PalmOS databases. There is some Java code floating around for using them, such as:

Palm Database (PDB) files in Java?

As to why that particular project elected to use PDB files, you would have to ask its author.

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