• Title: Elements of Android Room
• Author(s) Mark L. Murphy
• Publisher: CommonsWare, LLC.
• License(s): Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0
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• eBook: HTML, PDF (266 pages), ePub, Kindle
• Language: English
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Book Description

Storing data locally is a key part of many Android apps. SQLite is built into Android, but the low-level API that the Android SDK provides is a bit clunky to use.

Google's solution for that is Room, an object wrapper around that API. This gives us a cleaner, type-safe, reactive API for our database operations. Room is part of the Android Jetpack, and so it is a key element of Google’s recommended “stack” of technologies for building Android apps.

This book explores Room, starting with basic stuff like:

• Adding Room to your app
• Defining your entities and data access operation (DAO) APIs
• Testing your database I/O
• Using Room with Kotlin coroutines, LiveData, and RxJava
• Migrating your database schema as your app evolves

It also gets into more elaborate scenarios, such as using SQLCipher for Android for encrypting your Room database.

• Mark Murphy is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of the Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development and other books on Android application development. He is active in supporting the Android developer community, from answering questions on StackOverflow to publishing sample code and reusable components as open source. A polished speaker, Mr. Murphy has delivered conference presentations and training sessions on a wide array of topics internationally.

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