Accessing Couchbase Lite via a Content Provider in Android

Mobile Couchbase Lite
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I’ve been fiddling with CB lite for a while now and I’m starting to encounter a few problems as a result of not approaching it from the right angle. I basically have a couple of activities that use the database and I haven’t been able to handle it well. What I did at first was to create a new instance of the StorageManager (which is the class that provides the database) on both activities and, since the database would be the same, I thought this would be ok for synchronization. This has created a lot of problems (specially when restarting the Replication pusher every time I resume an activity) and I thought it would be better to look it up here in the forum.

I’ve seen some recommendations about using a singleton or a content provider, as well as having a service running in the background doing all the syncing.

Using a simpleton is not recommended in android unless you use a library that manages the threads, and making a content provider seems like overkill to me.

Is there a sample case for this that I haven’t come by yet? am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

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My App uses Content provider and right now SQLite.
Is there a way to integrate couch base lite 2.0 with Content provider? It is necessary for me because many apps uses the same DB.
Thanks

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Yes. You could consider Content Provider or AIDL. Another option that came across my radar (I’ve not used it but I know of someone who has) is Hermes framework

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How can I implement my content provider? It implements Query which returns
cursor and as far as I know, couch base’s query returns ResultSet.
Can I see examples?
Thanks

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Help anyone?
Thanks in advance

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Tagging @hod.greeley who may have more experience with this.