Implementing Room in your applications
Room is an object-relational mapping library used in Android data persistence and is the recommended data persistence in Modern Android Development. In addition, it is effortless to use, understand and maintain, and harnesses the powers of SQLiteDatabase, it also helps reduce boilerplate code, an issue many developers experience when using SQLite. Writing tests is also very straightforward and easy to understand.
The most notable advantage of Room is that it is easy to integrate with other architecture components and gives developers runtime compile checks – that is, Room will complain if you make an error or change your schema without migrating, which is practical and helps reduce crashes.
How to do it…
Let’s go ahead and create a new empty compose project and call it RoomExample. In our example project, we will create a form intake from users; this is where users can save their first and last names, date of birth...