Application Threads
Reading from the database does not happen immediately. Because access can take so long, Room disallows all database operations on the main thread. If you try to violate this rule, Room will throw the IllegalStateException you have just seen.
Why? To understand that, you need to understand what a thread is, what the main thread is, and what the main thread does.
A thread is a single sequence of execution. Code running within a single thread will execute one step after another. Every Android app starts life with a main thread. The main thread, however, is not a preordained list of steps. Instead, it sits in an infinite loop and waits for events initiated by the user or the system. Then it executes code in response ...
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