In this episode, we talk to Florina from Google about the recently released Database library Room. Room was introduced as part of the Android Architecture components and has been picking up a lot of steam in the community.
Room focuses on being a beautiful api layer to Sqlite. Florina explains to us how we can use Room to create a database, creating entities and how them map to tables, using DAOs to access data and even observe them
Listen on for the details!
Show Notes Official docsA: There's only 1 reflection call (at the time of finding the database implementation, when you call Room.builder). Most of the other stuff is generated code (with compile time verification!).
Q: Does Room provide compile-time SQL checksA: Yes, Room was designed to provide compile-time checks.
Q: Does Room handle SQL injection attacks (security)Yes ... for all practical purposes. See this post for times when it doesn't.
Q: Do we have tools to access the sqlite database file directly?Nope, at the moment, adb is your friend. Use that to download the file manually from your device.
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