No such table android_metadata, what's the problem?

Question

I am copying a pre-existing database to /data/data/packagename/databases using code learned from using-your-own-sqlite-database-in-android-applications

Answer 1

Use

SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(dbPath, null,SQLiteDatabase.NO_LOCALIZED_COLLATORS | SQLiteDatabase.CREATE_IF_NECESSARY);

or

SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(dbPath, null,SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READWRITE);