Managing SQLite Connections in Android

Question

I have a (hopefully) quick question regarding handling SQLite database connections in Android. I have an app that is composed, naturally, of several activities. I have no tr

Answer 1

Connection opening in SQLite is about 0.2ms.

The best practice tells us to open and close the connection each time we need one.

Answer 2

Just use SQLiteOpenHelper.getReadableDatabase() and SQLiteOpenHelper.getWriteableDatabase() - Android will manage and cache the connection so you don't need to.

In fact, refer to the official Google Using Databases documentation:

To write to and read from the database, call getWritableDatabase() and getReadableDatabase(), respectively. These both return a SQLiteDatabase