Filling the database with a large amount of information?

Question

Android

Comrades, I'm interested in someone else's experience or even some best practice, here's the question:
When you first start the application, you need to fill the database with a large amount of text data. Moreover, one of the fields of the table may contain line feed characters. Now it is done in the form of a large footcloth of sql inserts, which are run at the start of the application. Maybe someone knows more civilized ways to implement such a task?
What does the transition to orm activeandroid have to do with it, and there, apparently, it will no longer be possible to just take and drive away a pack of inserts.

Answer 1

I did this: a json file with data is generated, the file is thrown into the assets folder. When you first start the application, this file is parsed into the model and then do whatever you want.

Answer 2

You can see how this is done in the Google IO 2014 application, where json is parsed on the first run. Start with the performDataBootstrap method
https://github.com/google/iosched/blob/master/andr...