Meaning of android.content.UriMatcher

Question

What is Uri Matcher in android.content.UriMatcher

How to use it? Can someone please explain meaning of following three line of code?

  uriMa         


        

Answer 1

I found the following videos to be useful:

URI Basics

URI Matcher

In essence, what you are trying to do is, have an ID or a number associated to different URIs. When you use addUri, a code/number/ID gets created against the URI. When you request a match(), the corresponding code is returned.