Writing inside a cursor android

Question

while reading the documentation on Cursor here I read that cursor provides read/write access. I had gone through the API methods of Cursor but there is no setter method available to write into the Cursor. It would be of great help if you could provide me with code snippet. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I think that's a bug in the documentation. You are quite right that there are no Cursor methods to modify the underlying data.

If you do try to modify the underlying data (by executing SQL statements, for example) while iterating over the data using a Cursor, bad things happen. If you need to make changes, you should keep a separate record of what you need to change whilst iterating with the Cursor, and then apply those changes separately once the Cursor is safely closed.