Content Provider with a Real Time Framework [PubNub]

Question

I am working on a personal side project that utilizes PubNub's real time framework.

My current understanding of Android's Content Provider is that it is used to help centralize an applications' content all in one place.

Therefore, when using a service, such as PubNub. Would a content provider be beneficial in a way that I may have missed?

I would like my app to update individual/all row contents (through the use of a Content Resolver) from listViews dynamically and have it update in real time on all connected devices as well. A quick google search tells me that I can update individual row contents without a Content Provider but would it have any additional use? Especially in conjunction with a real time framework?

Any help or thought would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks!

Answer 1

Update: As a developing programmer, I decided to use a Content Provider in my application along with PubNub's real time framework. I do not regret my decision at all.

The Content Provider allows my application to keep a sorted table of the required values which I then use to publish onto PubNub's real time framework.

The Content Provider also allows me to perform functions on the table through the use of a cursor which I found to be extremely beneficial as well.