Android Arch's Room - Introduction

My first reaction when Android Architecture Component is out is just meh..

I mean come on, the ViewModel is heavily tied to Activity and Fragment and basically i don't need it because i use Conductor.

The Lifecycle part is better than something like RxLifecycle but it's not a new thing. Also with Conductor you can have a listener to your lifecycle event. So no big deal in this part too.

LiveData is just a subset from Rx's Subject no? I get it, it can make the development process much painless, but being late released than others community solutions make me more skeptical about it.

But there's one thing that caught my interest. And that is Room! Being tired from object database like Realm, I'm searching for SQL solution again but sadly the options is not so much change from 2+ years ago when i left SQL for object database.

What is Room?

Taken from the official Android site:

The Room persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow fluent database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.

Room components

There are 3 major components in Room

Database As the name imply, this is your database representation
Entity This represent your table.
DAO (Data Access Object) This represent your query or function to manipulate your database

OK, OK, show me some code!

@Dao
interface UserDao {
    @Query("SELECT * FROM user")
    fun getUsers(): List<User>

    @Delete
    fun deleteUsers(vararg users: User)

    @Insert(onConflict = OnConflictStrategy.REPLACE)
    fun insertUser(user: User)
}

Here's the code for Room data access object (DAO). Well, this remind me to Retrofit interface and i really love it!

Next, we will getting our hands dirty with Room. Stay tuned! \ud83d\udc4b

Also, check out the official Android training article for more info about Room!