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Kotlin Programming By Example

You're reading from   Kotlin Programming By Example Build real-world Android and web applications the Kotlin way

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788474542
Length 500 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Iyanu Adelekan Iyanu Adelekan
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Preface 1. The Fundamentals 2. Building an Android Application – Tetris FREE CHAPTER 3. Implementing Tetris Logic and Functionality 4. Designing and Implementing the Messenger Backend with Spring Boot 2.0 5. Building the Messenger Android App – Part I 6. Building the Messenger Android App – Part II 7. Storing Information in a Database 8. Securing and Deploying an Android App 9. Creating the Place Reviewer Backend with Spring 10. Implementing the Place Reviewer Frontend 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with a SQLite database

SQLite is a popular relational database management system (RDBMS) that, unlike many RDBMS systems, is not a client-server database engine. Instead, a SQLite database is embedded directly into an application.

Android provides full support for SQLite. SQLite databases are accessible throughout an Android project by classes. Note that in Android, a database is only accessible to the application that created it.

The use of the Room persistence library is the recommended method of working with SQLite in Android. The first step to work with room in Android is the inclusion of its necessary dependencies in a project's build.gradle script:

implementation "android.arch.persistence.room:runtime:1.0.0-alpha9-1"
implementation "android.arch.persistence.room:rxjava2:1.0.0-alpha9-1"
implementation "io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxandroid:2...
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