Shipping your Room — This is a second part of two-part series on Room-friendly way to pre-package a database and ship it with your APK. This article focuses on application sample and packing all things together. Please take a look at part 1 for database pre-populating introduction. Pre-populating your Room I Building your Roomproandroiddev.com Sample project The story is based on a sample…

Building your Room — Shipping pre-built databases along with your application (or downloadable module) may have benefits both for user experience and your backend infrastructure: less server queries, less data transfer, faster response. …

Keeping your app up-to-date on your users’ devices enables them to try new features, as well as benefit from performance improvements and bug fixes. Although some users enable background updates when their device is connected to an unmetered connection, other users may need to…