Learn Android Studio 4: Efficient Java-Based Android Apps Development

© Ted Hagos 2020

T. HagosLearn Android Studio 4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5937-5_16

16. Jetpack, LiveData, ViewModel, and Room

Ted Hagos¹ 

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Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

 

What we’ll cover:

• Lifecycle aware components

• ViewModel

• LiveData

• Room

We saw a bit of the Architecture components in Chapter 10. In this chapter, we’ll look at some other libraries in the Architecture components, namely, Room; it’s a persistence library that sits on top of SQLite. If you’ve used an ORM before (Object Relational Mapper), you can think of Room as something similar to that.

In this chapter, we’ll also explore some more libraries in the Architecture components that go hand in hand with the Room libraries. We’ll look at lifecycle aware components, LiveData, ...