Mobile App Best Practice When Using SQLite Database

Question

Hello,
I have a mobile app that has several views.
Each view calls a different method of a Database custom class that basically returns the array from a synchronous execute call.
So, each view has a creationComplete handler in which I have something like this:
var db:Database=new Database();
var connectResponse:Object=db.connect('path-to-database');
if(connectResponse.allOK)//allOK is true if connection was succesful
   //Do stuff with data
else
   //Present error notice
However this seems reduntant. Is it OK to do this once (connect the the database) in the Main Application file?
The do something like FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.db?
And even generally speaking, constants and other things that I would need throughout the app, can be placed in the main app? As a best practice, not technically as technically it is possible.
Thank you.

Answer 1

no, I only connect it once
I figured I wanted several views to use it so made it static and singleton as I only have 1 database
I actually use synchronous calls but there is a sync with remote mysql database function, hence the eventdispatcher
... although I am thinking it might be better to use Async and dispatch a custom event and have the relative views subscribe