Using ormlite with a preopulated database

[Tim Drew]

Hi all,

First of all ormlite is awesome, big thanks, it makes android development sooo much easier.

The issue I'm having is that I would like to use a small prepopulated database file with ormlite but haven't been able to get it to work.

Upon first run of an app I'm copying an existing database from my apk assets folder to the location where ormlite would usually create its fresh database. I was hoping ormlite would just pick it up an run with it but unfortunately I'm still getting onCreate() firing in my SQLiteOpenHelper.

I'm pretty sure that the copied database's compatibility/integrity is intact as it is one that ormlite created in the first place, I just copied it off an emulator via DDMS and haven't made any changes.

Is there anything ormlite specific that I might have missed?

Cheers,

Tim

[jc]

try this: https://groups.google.com/group/ormlite-android/browse_thread/thread/f1a1a876304e2483/e014ff4ab7eaf45a

[Tim Drew]

Brilliant,

Got it working now, my own implementation was pretty much there, looks like I just needed to do a 

getWritableDatabase().close(); before performing the copy.

Much appreciated.

On Saturday, May 26, 2012 1:29:37 AM UTC+1, jc wrote:

try this: https://groups.google.com/group/ormlite-android/browse_thread/thread/f1a1a876304e2483/e014ff4ab7eaf45a