How using SQLiteOpenHelper with database on sd-card?

Question

According to various answers here and in the web extending Application and it\'s inherited method getDatabasePath() would allow to set the database storage path from the standar

Answer 1

I found I could use a full path in Android 2.2, but in 2.1 the Context.openOrCreateDatabase() method threw an exception. To work around this I wrapped that method to call SQLiteDatabase.openOrCreateDatabase() directly. Here is the constructor for my extended SQLOpenHelper

public class Database extends SQLiteOpenHelper {
  public Database(Context context) {
    super(new ContextWrapper(context) {
        @Override public SQLiteDatabase openOrCreateDatabase(String name, 
                int mode, SQLiteDatabase.CursorFactory factory) {

            // allow database directory to be specified
            File dir = new File(DIR);
            if(!dir.exists()) {
                dir.mkdirs();
            }
            return SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(DIR + "/" + NAME, null,
                SQLiteDatabase.CREATE_IF_NECESSARY);
        }
    }, NAME, null, VERSION);
    this.context = context;
  }
}