How to retrieve data from cursor class

Question

I need to know how to retrieve data from cursor. I need this because the ringtonemanager returns all the audio files in form of cursor object, I need to know how to retrieve the values.

Anbudan.

Answer 1

Just read the documentation in the API:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/Cursor.html

Or there is a nice tutorial:

http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/notepad/index.html

Also this question could maybe help you:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/903343/cursor-get-the-field-value-android

Answer 2

Once you have the Cursor object, you can do something like this:

if (cursor.moveToFirst()){
   do{
      String data = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("data");
      // do what ever you want here
   }while(moveToNext());
}
cursor.close();

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