Content providers let you centralize content in one place and have many different applications access it as needed . 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.
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A content provider is a company that supplies material such as text, music, or images for use on websites .
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You can implement as many as you want , as you can see from the documentation here. To register a content provider, you need to add its corresponding <provider> tag in the Android Manifest. In most cases, however, you won’t need multiple content providers. One is usually enough, as it can handle multiple tables.
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