Android SQLiteDatabase query with LIKE

this statement will return all the records whose keyname equals string specified by string, if you use wild card, then you can get desired results. Like:

mDb.query(true, DATABASE_NAMES_TABLE, new String[] { KEY_ROWID,
            KEY_NAME }, KEY_NAME + " LIKE ?",
            new String[] { filter+"%" }, null, null, null,
            null);

Will Lists all the records starting with word in filter.

mDb.query(true, DATABASE_NAMES_TABLE, new String[] { KEY_ROWID,
            KEY_NAME }, KEY_NAME + " LIKE ?",
            new String[] {"%"+ filter+ "%" }, null, null, null,
            null);

Will Lists all the records containing word in filter.

    public java.util.Vector<Products> getsearch(String subcategory,String searchby)
    {
        SQLiteDatabase db=this.getReadableDatabase();

        Cursor cursor = db.query(
            TABLE_PRODUCTS, 
            new String[] { SUBCATEGORY, MAIN_CATEGORY, PRODUCT_ID, PRODUCT_NAME, BRAND, PACKAGE_SIZE, PRICE }, 
            SUBCATEGORY + " LIKE '%" + subcategory + "%'",
            null, null, null, null, null);
    }

Can you try this.....code.......

public static final String KEY_ROWID="row";
public static final String KEY_NAME="name";

public Cursor fetchNamesByConstraint(String filter) {

  Cursor cursor=mDb.query(true, DATABASE_NAMES_TABLE, null,"row LIKE '%"+filter+"%' or name LIKE '%"+filter+"%'",null, null, null, null);

  }

You should give the filter with wildcards ;)

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