What does the content providers Component do in an Android application?

Implementing a content provider involves always the following steps:

What is the Content Resolver? The Content Resolver is the single, global instance in your application that provides access to your (and other applications’) content providers .

To create a content provider we have to:

When you want to access data in a content provider, you use the ContentResolver object in your application’s Context to communicate with the provider as a client . The ContentResolver object communicates with the provider object, an instance of a class that implements ContentProvider .

A content provider behaves very much like a database where you can query it, edit its content, as well as add or delete content using insert(), update(), delete(), and query() methods . In most cases this data is stored in an SQlite database.

Content providers can help an application manage access to data stored by itself, stored by other apps, and provide a way to share data with other apps . They encapsulate the data, and provide mechanisms for defining data security.

To access the content, define a content provider URI address. Create a database to store the application data. Implement the six abstract methods of ContentProvider class. Register the content provider in AndroidManifest .17 Eyl 2020