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I am essentially using a listview but am looking at providing a bookmark functionality. I am thinking that I should store the item attributes in a file when bookmarked and retrieve when required to populate a bookmark listview.

I was wondering if there is a de facto standard used in achieving this or do I follow just the "writing into a file" and "reading from a file" when necessary style?

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Instead of plain files (or XML) you could use a SQLite database (android supports that) to store the bookmarks. You'll find the documentation here.

When I started playing around with android, I used this Tutorial to get used to the SQLite-Interface of android. You might find it useful, too.

  • I am doing this exact thing for one of my apps. – Jeremy Logan Oct 13 '09 at 19:23
  • Thanks... Just that I heard that the database API is not very strong in the current versions and requires a lot of work so I thought of resorting to a file based storage (which is quite simple using Parcelable). But thanks for pointing me to that tutorial. I will take your advice... – Legend Oct 13 '09 at 23:40