How to achieve concurrency in SQLite database? As per documents it is possible using WAL(Write-Ahead Logging).But, I dont know how to implement it.
In my app I want to read data from db on main thread and at the same time a background thread is writing/inserting some data in the same table. On executing read and write query at same time app stops responding until insertion isn't done. Is concurrency possible in SQLite, and how?
To enable write-ahead logging, just call enableWriteAheadLogging() in the onConfigure() callback of your SQLiteOpenHelper-derived class.
You need to use a singleton object of DataBase object. For this purpose you can use ContentProvider. Which is a better option to achieve concurrency.
Here is link for tutorial on ContentProvider
http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidSQLite/article.html
You can refer the documentation also http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html
I completely accept the answer by Nigam Patro, With reference to that I recommend use Greenrobot's GreenDAO with content provider, Singleton approach!!
Why GreenDao ?
- Maximum performance (probably the fastest ORM for Android).
- Easy to use APIs.
- Highly optimized for Android.
- Minimal memory consumption.
- Small library size, focus on the essentials, code generator .
Realm also trending ORM with replacement for Sqlite, but I don't use it until they provide support for Content Provider!
Other than that there are many RxJava ported ORM libs available have a look into that once you master some RxJava basics ( toughest thing, time consuming, but it minimizes the coding effort)
I think content provider + with minimized SQLite ORM framowrk + RxJava support will solve the majority of the ORM problems in Android.
"I want to read data from db on main thread": -> Please never do this. It will hangs your UI until database read call executes. Always do it on background thread.
As per my understanding SQLite handles concurrency itself, so we not need to worry about it.
You can use Content Provider to update database by using it's insert() method. Once insertion completes you can notify all register Content Observer about change in database by using following code in insert() method:
getContext().getContentResolver().notifyChange(uri, null);
For creating, registering and unregistering ContentObserver. Please click here.
Please call all Content Provider related operations from background thread or AsyncQueryHandler. You can know more about AsyncQueryHandler here.
Let me know if more details needed or if it helps :)
