contentproviders
Content providers are software components that encapsulate data and expose it to other components or applications through a defined interface. They manage data storage, retrieval, and sharing, enforcing data integrity and access control. Content providers support common data operations such as create, read, update, and delete, and may offer additional actions or batch processing. They often abstract the underlying storage mechanism, which can be a database, a file system, or a remote service, and present a uniform API to consumers. In many ecosystems, they also support change notifications so that consumers can react to data updates.
In general computing, content providers act as data sources that can be consumed by multiple clients while
In Android, a ContentProvider is a specific type of component that exposes data to other apps via
While content providers emphasize structured data sharing, many modern applications also use APIs or other data