Version of SQLite used in Android?

Question

What is the version of SQLite used in Android?

Reason: I\'m wondering how to handle schema migrations. The newer SQLite versions support an \"ALTER TABLE\" SQL comma

Answer 1

Although the documentation gives 3.4.0 as reference number, if you execute the following sql, you'll notice that there is a much higher number of SQlite installed:

Cursor cursor = SQLiteDatabase.openOrCreateDatabase(":memory:", null).rawQuery("select sqlite_version() AS sqlite_version", null);
String sqliteVersion = "";
while(cursor.moveToNext()){
   sqliteVersion += cursor.getString(0);
}

This is just a piece of quick, dirty code to retrieve the sqlite version. For instance on a HTC Hero with Android 2.1, I get: 3.5.9.

On my Nexus One with Android 2.2, I even get 3.6.22.