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Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials - Java Edition

By : Neil Smyth
Book Image

Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials - Java Edition

By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Android applications have become an important part of our daily lives and lots of effort goes into developing an Android application. This book will help you to build you own Android applications using Java. Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials – Java Edition first teaches you to install Android development and test environment on different operating systems. Next, you will create an Android app and a virtual device in Android Studio, and install an Android application on emulator. You will test apps on physical Android devices, then study Android Studio code editor and constraint layout, Android architecture, the anatomy of an Android app, and Android activity state changes. The book then covers advanced topics such as views and widgets implementation, multi-window support integration, and biometric authentication, and finally, you will learn to upload your app to Google Play console and handle the build process with Gradle. By the end of this book, you will have gained enough knowledge to develop powerful Android applications using Java.
Table of Contents (86 chapters)
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64.6 The Repository

The repository is responsible for getting a Room Database instance, using that instance to access associated DAOs and then making calls to DAO methods to perform database operations. A typical constructor for a repository designed to work with a Room Database might read as follows:

public class CustomerRepository {

 

    private CustomerDao customerDao;

    private CustomerRoomDatabase db;

 

    public CustomerRepository(Application application) {

        db = CustomerRoomDatabase.getDatabase(application);

        customerDao = db.customerDao();

    }

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}

Once the repository has access to the DAO, it can make calls to the data access methods. The following code, for example, calls the getAllCustomers() DAO method:

private LiveData<List<Customer&gt...