How To Store Chat History In Sqlite At Runtime Like Whatsapp In Android?

I created a simple chat application and now I want to store the chat messages in Sqlite to provide chat history to users. But I don't have idea how to create database and tables, a

Solution 1:

Look at SQLiteOpenHelper:

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

Coding example:

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidSQLite/article.html

Solution 2:

The preferred and much easier way in android is to use Room library, which greatly reduces boilerplate and works smoothly with other architechture components like LiveData, handles background queries for you and provides compile time checks just for a few lines of code.