Working with Room Databases
Learn how to create a Room database instance and handle migrations.
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Introduction
Our Android app needs to define a database instance to access the data defined in the SQLite tables. In the previous lesson, we learned that the Room persistence library offers three major components to define entities, DAOs, and the database itself. The database class is the app’s entry point for interacting with the database.
Defining a Room database
The Database annotation can be used on an abstract class that extends the RoomDatabase to define a database instance. The database should ...