This is my first time using a database and I'm not really sure how this works. I made the database and made a query that returns a cursor and... now what? What is a cursor, really? Can I just use that to navigate through my data or do I have to put it in an ArrayList or ListActivity or what?
You need to iterate the cursor to get your results.
Use cursor.moveToFirst()
and/or cursor.moveToNext()
(with a while loop). Then you can use the getX() method, like cursor.getInt()
or cursor.getString()
.
For example, ir your are expecting one result from your query:
if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
String name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex('NAME'));
int age = cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex('AGE'));
} else {
// oops nothing found!
}