title: android content provider AUTHORITIES
body: <p>What is the reason for content provider authorities? </p>
  
  <p>How/why do I want to use them other than I HAVE to declare them in the manifest?  </p>
  
  <p>I've tried to do my homework on this question and cannot find a decent, cohesive discussion on this topic.
  Here is the best I could find (in additi  on to the four books on Android development I own):</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=content+provider+authority">https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=content+provider+authority</a>  </li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7044893/content-providers-authority-and-and-uri-matching">Content Providers, Authority and and URI matching</a>  </li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2001590/get-a-list-of-available-content-providers">Get a list of available Content Providers</a>  </li>
  <li><a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/provider-element.html" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/provider-element.html</a>  </li>
  <li><a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-creating.html" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-creating.html</a></li>
  </ol>