mitmel/SimpleContentProvider — Issue #8: Add support for non-DB URIs
Author: xxv
Created: 2012-01-20 20:01:26+00:00
State: open
Labels: feature, wishlist

Currently, it's not possible to have one path of the provider backed by something other than the database, even though that should be possible. Ideally, one could have - say - a contact photo URI go straight to a filesystem instead of a database. This will require a bit of refactoring and maybe changing of the API, but is one of the goals for this framework.

To demonstrate this functionality, a simple filesystem path handler should be written which allows for storage / retrieval of content from a file, probably by returning a URI instead of the binary blob itself (it may be valuable to check out the way that Android implements the contact provider for this).