You instantiate a SQLiteOpenHelper object (the one we implemented in class), get a readable or writable database from it, and call methods from the database object to insert and query. Use the method provided in the Sunshine application on my github site (look in the database test class in the appropriate test folder) to compare ContentValues object (the map with all the information and column names) and what you get back in the cursor returned by the query.

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