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Added in API level 8

Summary: Methods | Inherited Methods

EntityIterator

Kotlin |Java

public interface EntityIterator
implements Iterator<Entity>

android.content.EntityIterator

A specialization of Iterator that allows iterating over a collection of Entity objects. In addition to the iteration functionality it also allows resetting the iterator back to the beginning and provides for an explicit close() method to indicate that the iterator is no longer needed and that its resources can be released.

Summary

Public methods
`abstract void`	`close()` Indicates that this iterator is no longer needed and that any associated resources may be released (such as a SQLite cursor).
`abstract void`	`reset()` Reset the iterator back to the beginning.

Inherited methods

From interface


        
          java.util.Iterator

`default void`	`)">forEachRemaining(Consumer<? super E> action)` Performs the given action for each remaining element until all elements have been processed or the action throws an exception.
`abstract boolean`	`hasNext()` Returns `true` if the iteration has more elements.
`abstract Entity`	`next()` Returns the next element in the iteration.
`default void`	`remove()` Removes from the underlying collection the last element returned by this iterator (optional operation).

Public methods

close

Added in API level 8

public abstract void close ()

Indicates that this iterator is no longer needed and that any associated resources may be released (such as a SQLite cursor).

reset

Added in API level 8

public abstract void reset ()

Reset the iterator back to the beginning.

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Last updated 2026-08-03 UTC.

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