Using action Query Content Provider

[skiptannen]

I understand that working with action Query Content Provider is not easy, but I'm game to give it a try - I have a couple of flows that would really benefit from getting at those data. How do I find out which content providers are available to Automagic and how do I find where the data are located? And would that give me enough information to structure the Content URI statement?

There are a couple of apps that I would like to get data out of, but the one I'm working with right now is Ultimate To-do List.

Thank you.

[Martin]

Hi,

The ContentProvider URI should be documented by the app containing the provider when they want to share the data with other apps. Check the website of the todo-list app or contact the developer and ask about the URIs.
Often apps don't let other apps access the content providers or require some kind of permission that's most likely not granted to Automagic.

Regards,
Martin

[skiptannen]

Thanks for the quick response, Martin. I contacted the dev and he gave me two content providers and URI's that can access his database. I'm now able to get some data, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to write the queries to get more granular subsets of the data that I'm looking for. I'm hoping the dev will give me some additional info on the database schema, tables, etc. I'm also trying to find general documentation on working with content providers that a non-programmer can understand. As you said before, this stuff isn't easy....

Thanks again.