Android get sum of database column

Question

I need help with summing all the values in one of the columns(amount) in my database. i can a get a particular value. .but i need sum of a specific column, somebody tell me

Answer 1

Do so:

Cursor cur = db.rawQuery("SELECT SUM(myColumn) FROM myTable", null);
if(cur.moveToFirst())
{
    return cur.getInt(0);
}