Understanding Room

When it comes to Android development, one of the most essential tasks is managing your application’s data in a local database. The Room persistence library, part of Android Jetpack, is an abstraction layer over SQLite, a popular database that comes with Android. Room offers more robust database access while harnessing SQLite’s full power.

Key features of Room

Before Room, developers primarily used SQLite directly or other object-relational mapping (ORM) libraries. While SQLite is powerful, it can be cumbersome to work with because it requires writing a lot of boilerplate code. Additionally, errors in SQL queries often aren’t detected until runtime, which can lead to crashes.

Room solves these issues by providing a simpler and more robust API over the standard SQLite for managing local data storage. Here are some of its key features:

• Compile-time verification of SQL queries: Room verifies your SQL queries at compile time, not...