Content Provider

If you want to share data with other applications you can use a content provider (short provider). Provider offer data encapsulation based on URI’s. Any URI which starts withcontent:// points to a resources which can be accessed via a provider. A URI for a resource may allow to perform the basic CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) on the resource via the content provider.



Content providers let you centralize content in one place and have many different applications access it as needed. A content provider behaves very much like a database where you can query it, edit its content, as well as add or delete content using insert(), update(), delete(), and query() methods. In most cases this data is stored in an SQlite database.