Android Content Provider
Steps to interact with existing Content Providers Data storage methods like SharedPreferences and file system are most specific to one application. If you want share our data across different applications then we go for ContentProviders. But at content providers can get data from database, file system, xml or network as depicted in the below Image. Content providers store and retrieve data and make it accessible to all applications. They’re the only way to share data across applications; there’s no common storage area that all Android packages can access. Android ships with a number of content providers for common data types (audio, video, images, personal Contact information, and so on) you can query these providers for the data they contain (although, for some, You must acquire the proper permission to read the data). If you want to make your own data public, you have two options: You can create your own content provider. You can add the data to an