Your SQL statrment will return all the row ids, not just the latest. Try something like this...
SELECT ROWID from SQL_LITE_SEQUENCE order by ROWID DESC limit 1
Also note that I believe selecting from SQL_LITE_SEQUENCE will get the latest ID from ANY table, you can also access the SQL_LITE_SEQUENCE by selecting ROWID on any table, and getting just the IDs for that table. IE
SELECT ROWID from MYTABLE order by ROWID DESC limit 1
And thanks to MisterSquonk for pointing out the next step in the comments, adding it here for ease of reference later...
The query statement will then return a Cursor object containing the results, so to access the integer value you would do something like this (I'll substitute more common methods for your helper method, just for others sake)
String query = "SELECT ROWID from MYTABLE order by ROWID DESC limit 1";
Cursor c = db.rawQuery(query);
if (c != null && c.moveToFirst()) {
lastId = c.getLong(0); //The 0 is the column index, we only have 1 column, so the index is 0
}
(Note that although the SQL Lite docs call ROWID and Integer, it is a 64 bit integer, so in Java it should be retrieved as a long.)
