title: Android sqlite concurrency without exceptions
body: <p>Sqlite on android lets you access the database from multiple procs for reads, but if you're currently writing from one process, reads and writes from other procs will throw an exception because the first write has a lock on the db.</p>
  
  <p>By "procs" I mean other threads in the same app.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a standard way to have the other threads simply wait until the database is available again, possibly with a specified timeout, rather than throwing an exception?</p>
  
  <p>Anticipating the "why are you doing it that way?" answers, its just the way we're doing it, and that's it.  We're also not going to use a content provider.  Just want a way to synchronize db access.</p>
  
  <p>Assuming there's no standard way to do it, we'll probably wind up writing a wrapper around the db calls to do some thread synchronization.</p>