I cannot get any of the Database Try It Out examples presented from p225 onwards in Chapter 6 to work on my HTC Wildfire S device. Everything was going swimmingly up until now! I get the following dreaded message:

Sorry!
The application Databases (process com.baad.Databases) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
Force close?

I am pretty sure the problem lies in the line:
Cursor c = db.getAllContacts(), but since I cannot find fault with that method (or any other for that matter) in the DBAdapter class I am at a loss.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Do I need a uses-permission or something?

Please help! I have to write an application that uses my own database, so would really like to understand this example.

Thanks in advance!
Nick

OK, so if anyone else has problems with this, the solution is to change the line in DBAdapter.java from
private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "MyDB";
to
private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "MyDB.db";

... Simples! :)

I don't know if I can add this to the list of Errata myself? So if someone fancies doing it for me, the offending pages in the book are p219 and p221.

Thanks
Nick

The author tells me that the database file extension should not be necessary, and indeed in a later example in the book can be ommitted without the program crashing. So I do not know why it fixed the problem I was having this time!?