is it a good way to store data in list array

Question

I am learning android and currently i am working on an android app, whose one tab is reserved for storing medicines and their description like there will be a list of medicines and when user click any item , he will get the description.My question is that , is it a good practice to store the values of medicines and their description as a list of objects? Are their dis-advantages of using this method to store data?

Answer 1

这取决于您拥有的数据量。如果将其大量存储在db中，并在需要时填充。

Answer 2

Using a SQlite database is a possible solution for storing the list of medicines. Using a database will scale well over time as the number of medicines increase. Below is a link to the android related sqlite database API's.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/sqlite/SQLiteDatabase.html

Answer 3

I use that approach on most of my projects and i never found and issue with it. I even made an app involving contacts, wich deals with a considerable amount of data (given de way contact API works) and it works smoothly so my answer would be yes.