📱 ContentProvider in 2025: Ancient Relic or Secret Weapon?

Most Android devs think ContentProvider is just… old boilerplate 👴.

But here’s the twist: it’s still powering Contacts, MediaStore, FileProvider, and even search widgets.

So is it dead code we’re dragging around, or a secret weapon hiding in plain sight? 🤔

I broke it down with:

• ✅ Real-world use cases
• ✅ Why it’s still alive (and not deprecated)
• ✅ Modern alternatives (Room, DataStore, SQLite)

👉 Full article on Medium:

https://medium.com/@vaibhav.shakya786/contentprovider-in-2025-ancient-relic-or-secret-weapon-6223cd625e40

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