android-room-prepackageddatabase

How to populate Android Room database table on first run?

March 25, 2023 by Tarik

Updated You can do this in 3 ways: important check this for migration details 1- Populate your database from exported asset schema Room.databaseBuilder(appContext, AppDatabase.class, “Sample.db”) .createFromAsset(“database/myapp.db”) .build(); 2- Populate your database from file Room.databaseBuilder(appContext, AppDatabase.class, “Sample.db”) .createFromFile(new File(“mypath”)) .build(); 3- You can run scripts after database is created or run every time database is opened … Read more

How to use Room Persistence Library with pre-populated database?

February 14, 2023 by Tarik

This is how I solved it, and how you can ship your application with a pre-populated database (up to Room v. alpha5) put your SQLite DB database_name.db into the assets/databases folder take the files from this repo and put them in a package called i.e. sqlAsset in your AppDatabase class, modify your Room’s DB creation … Read more