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What is the best way to save a string-array in SQLite on Android?

One string size is about 200 bytes,
and it stores 10~20 size in a daily array.
(Store 10~20 strings of 200bytes, as array type)
I have found a way to convert an array to a string
and store it in SQLite.
However, I do not know it's a good idea
because the size of the string is large.
1.
If large arrays of strings,
is it a good idea to store arrays as a string?
2.
or is there a better way?
I would like advice. Thank you.

You're actually placing your concern onto the wrong part of your database design.
For SQLite, the maximum length of a String is 1 billion bytes, so your worries about your 10-20 strings of 200 bytes each actually isn't considered that large.
There's really no harm in storing your array as a single long String in your database. Especially when it's nowhere close to the maximum limit of a String.
Your database query time won't become longer due to your String being long. The real concern here is the processing you'll be doing on that String to turn it back into an Array. Typically, if the String is extremely long, the real performance hit is when you're flattening the array into a String and when you're transforming that String back into an Array.
However, typically, this is something you'll show a loading indicator for to your users.
For storing an Array into a database, there's really only two ways to do so:
Flatten array into a single String and store the String as TEXT
Create a table meant to store the individual elements of the string, and include a column for a Foreign Key that allows you to associate those rows with the same array. Then you'll store each element of your String arrays as a row in this table.
Depending on what you need, one design is better than the other.
For example, you would normally prefer the second implementation if your app requires you to constantly edit individual elements of an array.
For such an example, it wouldn't make much sense to use the first solution, because this means every time you want to edit the contents of an array, you'll be fetching back the complete array in it's entirety. This is impractical when you only want to fetch or edit a particular portion of that String.
Therefore, in such an example, it is much more practical to store the individual elements of the arrays into individual rows of a Table meant for this type of data. You'll be querying only the row you want and updating only the row you want.
So to answer your questions, there's really only two ways to store your String array as a TEXT type in your SQLite database. Both ways work and the real concern is to consider which solution fits your needs best.
If your app only requires you to store and fetch the array in it's entirety each time, then the single String method might be more preferable.
But if your app requires you to work with individual elements of your array, then using the table method would be more convenient.

Get current place type in Google Places API

I'm working with Google Places API.
I'm getting right the place in my log, but I just want the name of the type of place. Let's say this is my output
Place 'Parque Las Tejas' has likelihood: 0.950000 Type: [69, 1013, 34]
So, at first I get the position where I am, the likelihood of where I am and then I just used:
List<Integer> types = placeLikelihood.getPlace().getPlaceTypes();
thinking it would return like "park" or "square" but instead of that I get those array of numbers [69, 1013, 34].
According to what I read here, there is lots of types that defines a certain place.
What I want is to get that kind of types only, so if I'm at a restaurant I don't want the name of the restaurant but instead just the type, so "Restaurant" will be my output.
I need this because I want to give the user options depending on what type of place they are.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

The List<Integer> that you get is actually the id of type of places, according to the docs:
The elements of this list are drawn from Place.TYPE_*
The list is here. So basically your goal is to convert int code to a string using this list. You can find your solution here, basically you obtain all the fields from the Place class, find all the fields that start with "TYPE", get the int value and compare it to the value that you get from the getPlaceTypes().

even though this is an old post, it will help you if you an encountering this issue,
i was encountering this issue
and here is my approach
List<Place.Type> types = placeLikelihood.getPlace().getTypes();
to get all the type you can use a foreach loop
for(Object type:types){
// get all individual type
}

How to take values from .CSV and set them to a double?

I have been stuck on this problem for a few days and cannot find any help online. I want to take specific values from a .CSV depending on the user's location. My .CSV looks something like this:
State,Value
California,0.85
Arizona,0.95
New York,0.75
etc...
The app currently tracks the user's state and sets it to local like so:
final String local = address.get(0).getAdminArea();
I am trying to find a way to have the app look through the .CSV and find the row when local=[state] then take the value from the second column and set it to a double. I have no clue where to start and could really use any help anyone can provide! Thank you!
Just to clarify, I am not trying to print the .CSV, I only need to extract a single value.
Edit:
I solved the issue by using a buffered reader and reading the values into a HashMap then calling the correct key based on location.

output text line by line

I write app for Android such gets data from server in JSON format. Now I get this value in string, but in my application it must look like:
Route:
1)first point
2)secon point
3).....
n) n point
I read that in Android in textView I can do it if string will be with html tags but I think it is not the best variant. After Android I must do it in iPhone now I don't know how to do that there. Send Routes as Array is not good variant too. Can you say what is the best way to decide this problem?

Have a look here you will have to find the good pattern .
Hence you have separated strings just use a list View with an ArrayAdapter.
I am not so good with regex but i think it should like : [1-9][0-9]) [[a-f][0-9]]+

I couldn't comment b/c of rep, sorry. Could you provide an example of returned JSON string. I think JSON format can be parsed with ease.
If this the case you can parse it in a loop (or another way. I'm not that good at it)
String[] parseIt (String JSON){
String[] list=JSON.split("\\d\\)");
String[] rlist=new String[list.length-1];
for(int i=0;i<list.length-1;i++){
rlist[i]=list[i+1].trim();
}
return rlist;
}
This might do trick. But you should edit result. I didn't test yet
Edit: I edited code. It simply return the address now with leading whitespace. You can get rid off them using. String trim() method like;
list[1].trim();
Do it in loop and don't care about first element (index 0).
Edit 2: Now it should work

Playing raw file based on String

I have a simple program where I generate random numbers, and use these to return an element from an array. Based on this array element, I want to play a sound file. For example: The random element that was returned was "Am". I now want to play the file "am.ogg". But you cant just throw a string in for the resourceId. Any ideas?

This seems to be duplicate of this thread (which by the way is also duplicate). Except for using this method you can also use reflection on the R class (second also not good option). The best option is the one in which the list of ids you will be interested in can be determined in the code. Basically you define map mapping every string to the corresponding R.id variable (int). However, I am not quite sure this will be your case.