Technical requirements
Usually, building Compose-based Android projects with Jetpack Room will require your day-to-day tools. However, to follow along with the examples smoothly, make sure you have the following:
- The Arctic Fox 2020.3.1 version of Android Studio. You can also use a newer Android Studio version or even Canary builds but note that the IDE interface and other generated code files might differ from the ones used throughout this book.
- The Kotlin 1.6.10, or newer, plugin installed in Android Studio
- The Restaurants app code from the previous chapter.
- Minimal knowledge of SQL databases and queries
The starting point for this chapter is represented by the Restaurants application that was developed in the previous chapter. If you haven't followed the implementation described in the previous chapter, access the starter code for this chapter by navigating to the Chapter_05
directory of the repository. Then, import the Android project entitled chapter_5_restaurants_app...