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    <p>If using Android you can take advantage of the built SQLiteDatabase and SQLiteOpenHelper. You'll find <strong>all</strong> the info you need <a href="http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidSQLite/article.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. </p> <p>After parsing everything you can export to CSV the way you want by using <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/File.html" rel="nofollow">File</a>.</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> So basically what you need to do is to parse the bytes by reading them and that way have access to the content. In some cases you don't even need to convert them to a String, since could be that you only need the value of the byte. (ie.: Offset: 44 Length:4 Description:The schema format number. Supported schema formats are 1, 2, 3, and 4.). You can always check if your values are correct with any HEX editor, even opening the sqlite file with a text editor of any kind would help.</p> <p>Let's start from scratch. First, reading the file. Two approaches</p> <ul> <li>a. Read the whole file and parse it after </li> <li>b. Read and parse the whole file in blocks (recommended, specially for bigger files)</li> </ul> <p>Both approaches would share most of the following code:</p> <pre><code>File file = new File("YOUR FILE ROUTE"); int len = 1024 * 512; //512KB try { fis = new FileInputStream(file); } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) { fis = null; e1.printStackTrace(); } byte[] b = new byte[len]; int bread; try { while((bread = fis.read(b, 0, len))!=-1) { if(parseBlock(b, bread)==1) return; } fis.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } </code></pre> <p>The difference would be between getting partial blocks and parsing them on the fly (which I guess works for you) and getting the whole thing would be to just put:</p> <pre><code>fis.read(b, 0, fis.available); </code></pre> <p>Instead of the while loop.</p> <p>Ultimately your approach is right, and that's the way to get bytes into a String. (new String(b)). Moreover the first characters are likely to represent weird symbols, if you have a look to the file format of SQL, these are reserved bytes for storing some metadata. Open the sqlite file with any text editor and check that what you see there matches with what comes out of your code.</p>
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    1. COThanks so much Jose. I guess I should have been a tad more specific. I just updated the question to include the fact that the sqback file is uploaded from the android device to a pc and so the parsing needs to happen server side.
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    2. COThen you need to start reading bytes :) Use this as a reference (http://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html) I'd recommend to use FileInputStream to read the file. It's interesting to set the blocks of bytes you read as a multiple of a power of 2 (something around 1024Kb or 512Kb tends to be the most proper options, in case your files reach that size). If you don't have experience at all with that I can give some example codes.
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    3. COThanks so much again, Jose. I really appreciate that. Im going to give it a read and a try this after noon and hopefully all will go smoothly. I will hit up this thread if I have more questions. 'Im new on SO and its already shaping up to be awesome.
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