Room

API Reference
androidx.room
androidx.room.migration
androidx.room.testing

The Room persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.

Latest Update	Stable Release	Release Candidate	Beta Release	Alpha Release
November 29, 2023	2.6.1	-	-	-

Declaring dependencies

To add a dependency on Room, you must add the Google Maven repository to your project. Read Google's Maven repository for more information.

Dependencies for Room include testing Room migrations and Room RxJava

Add the dependencies for the artifacts you need in the build.gradle file for your app or module:

Groovy

dependencies {
    def room_version = "2.6.1"

    implementation "androidx.room:room-runtime:$room_version"
    annotationProcessor "androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version"

    // To use Kotlin annotation processing tool (kapt)
    kapt "androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version"
    // To use Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP)
    ksp "androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version"

    // optional - RxJava2 support for Room
    implementation "androidx.room:room-rxjava2:$room_version"

    // optional - RxJava3 support for Room
    implementation "androidx.room:room-rxjava3:$room_version"

    // optional - Guava support for Room, including Optional and ListenableFuture
    implementation "androidx.room:room-guava:$room_version"

    // optional - Test helpers
    testImplementation "androidx.room:room-testing:$room_version"

    // optional - Paging 3 Integration
    implementation "androidx.room:room-paging:$room_version"
}

Kotlin

dependencies {
    val room_version = "2.6.1"

    implementation("androidx.room:room-runtime:$room_version")
    annotationProcessor("androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version")

    // To use Kotlin annotation processing tool (kapt)
    kapt("androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version")
    // To use Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP)
    ksp("androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version")

    // optional - Kotlin Extensions and Coroutines support for Room
    implementation("androidx.room:room-ktx:$room_version")

    // optional - RxJava2 support for Room
    implementation("androidx.room:room-rxjava2:$room_version")

    // optional - RxJava3 support for Room
    implementation("androidx.room:room-rxjava3:$room_version")

    // optional - Guava support for Room, including Optional and ListenableFuture
    implementation("androidx.room:room-guava:$room_version")

    // optional - Test helpers
    testImplementation("androidx.room:room-testing:$room_version")

    // optional - Paging 3 Integration
    implementation("androidx.room:room-paging:$room_version")
}

For information on using the KAPT plugin, see the KAPT documentation.

For information on using the KSP plugin, see the KSP quick-start documentation.

For information on using Kotlin extensions, see the ktx documentation.

For more information about dependencies, see Add Build Dependencies.

Optionally, for non-Android libraries (i.e. Java or Kotlin only Gradle modules) you can depend on androidx.room:room-common to use Room annotations.

Configuring Compiler Options

Room has the following annotation processor options:

room.schemaLocation: Configures and enables exporting database schemas into JSON files in the given directory. See Room Migrations for more information.
room.incremental: Enables Gradle incremental annotation processor.

An example of how these options can be configured are shown in the following code snippet:

Groovy

android {
    ...
    defaultConfig {
        ...
        javaCompileOptions {
            annotationProcessorOptions {
                arguments += [
                    "room.schemaLocation":"$projectDir/schemas".toString(),
                    "room.incremental":"true"
                    ]
            }
        }
    }
}

Kotlin

android {
    ...
    defaultConfig {
        ...
        javaCompileOptions {
            annotationProcessorOptions {
                arguments += mapOf(
                    "room.schemaLocation" to "$projectDir/schemas",
                    "room.incremental" to "true"
                )
            }
        }
    }
}

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Version 2.6

Version 2.6.1

November 29, 2023

androidx.room:room-*:2.6.1 is released. Version 2.6.1 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Resolved issue in generated code where the default value for Double columns in EntityCursorConverter was being set to 0 instead of 0.0. A potential fix for a similar edge-case for Float type columns has also been included. (Id75f5, b/304584179)
Exceptions thrown from PagingSource loads will now be propagated as a LoadStateUpdate of LoadResult.Error containing the Throwable. This error state is observable through PagingDataAdapter.loadStateFlow(Views) or LazyPagingItems.loadState(Compose). Note that this marks a behavioral change where in the past load errors will bubble up as an Exception thrown by the dao method that triggered the load. (I93887, b/302708983)

Version 2.6.0

October 18, 2023

androidx.room:room-*:2.6.0 is released. Version 2.6.0 contains these commits.

Important changes since 2.5.0

The option to enable Kotlin code generation (or “Kotlin CodeGen”) is now available in Room KSP. (4297ec0). To turn on Kotlin CodeGen in Room, add the room.generateKotlin option name to your processor options for KSP. For more details on how to pass processor options for KSP, see the KSP documentation.

Note: When using Kotlin CodeGen, it is important to note that there are additional restrictions that have been added. Abstract properties as DAO getters or DAO queries in Kotlin CodeGen are disallowed, and instead expected to be rewritten as functions to avoid the false notion that the property value is immutable and has a fixed stored result. Another restriction that has been added is that Nullable collection return types are no longer allowed in Room for Kotlin CodeGen.

Warning: You may find that your projects are more strict in terms of nullability when using Kotlin CodeGen. In Kotlin CodeGen, the nullability of type arguments is important, wheras in Java this is mostly ignored. For example, let's say you have a `Flow` return type and the table is empty. In Java CodeGen, this will not cause any issues, but in Kotlin CodeGen, you will get an error. To avoid this, you will need to use `Flow`, assuming a null is emitted.

The new artifact for the Room Gradle Plugin has been added to Room with the id androidx.room, which solves various existing issues in Room regarding having inputs and outputs of schemas via Gradle annotation processor options. For more details, refer to the Room Version 2.6.0-alpha02 release notes.
Value classes in Room Entities are now supported for KSP. (4194095)
Nested Map return types in DAO functions are now supported in Room. (I13f48, 203008711)

Version 2.6.0-rc01

September 20, 2023

androidx.room:room-*:2.6.0-rc01 is released. Version 2.6.0-rc01 contains these commits.

Version 2.6.0-beta01

August 23, 2023

androidx.room:room-*:2.6.0-beta01 is released. Version 2.6.0-beta01 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Handling the special case SQLite exception during upsert encountered when the 2067 SQLITE_CONSTRAINT_UNIQUE exception is thrown during an upsert, upsert should perform an update. (If2849, b/243039555)

Version 2.6.0-alpha03

August 9, 2023

androidx.room:room-*:2.6.0-alpha03 is released. Version 2.6.0-alpha03 contains these commits.

New Features

Nested Map return types in DAO functions are now supported in Room. (I13f48, 203008711)

API Changes

A new type annotation called @MapColumn has been created to replace @MapInfo, which is now deprecated. For each column name (keyColumnName, valueColumnName, or both) provided in a @MapInfo annotation, you will need to declare a @MapColumn annotation with just the columnName and use the annotation on the specific type argument that is being referenced (the key or value of the Map) in the return type of the DAO function. This is because the @MapColumn annotation is used directly on the type argument within the return type of a DAO function, instead of on the function itself like @MapInfo. For more information, please refer to the @MapColumn documentation. (Ib0305, b/203008711)
Updated API files to annotate compatibility suppression (I8e87a, b/287516207)
The Room Gradle plugin APIs have been updated to not always require per-variant configurations. This means that the plugin can accept a global location for all variants without creating multiple directories, enabling smoother migrations that but is also flexible enough to manually configure flavors or build type schemas while still retaining the benefits of the plugin (reproducible and cacheable builds). (I09d6f, b/278266663)

Bug Fixes

Fixed potential memory leak vulnerability in QueryInterceptorStatement. (I193d1)
Fixed incorrect behavior in the QueryInterceptorDatabase execSQL() function. (Iefdc8)

Version 2.6.0-alpha02

June 21, 2023

androidx.room:room-*:2.6.0-alpha02 is released. Version 2.6.0-alpha02 contains these commits.

Room Gradle Plugin

This new release contains a new artifact for the Room Gradle Plugin with id androidx.room, which solves various existing issues in Room regarding having inputs and outputs of schemas via Gradle annotation processor options. The Room Gradle Plugin configures the project such that generated schemas that are consumed for auto-migrations and are output of the compile tasks are correctly configured to have reproducible and cacheable builds. The plugin offers a DSL to configure the base schema location:

room {
    schemaDirectory("$projectDir/schemas/")
}

The plugin will then configure the Room compiler and the various compile tasks and its backends (javac, KAPT, KSP) to output schema files into flavored folders, i.e. schemas/flavorOneDebug/com.package.MyDatabase/1.json. As usual these files are checks-in into the repository to be used for validation and auto-migrations. Upon migrating to using the plugin instead of the annotation processor options the existing schema files must be copied to the generated flavor directories created by the plugin, this is a one-time migration operation that must be done manually. The schema documentation in developers.android.com will be updated in the future once feedback is addressed and the plugin reaches stable, so please give it a try.

API Changes

RoomDatabase.QueryCallback has been defined as a functional interface to allow SAM conversion usages. (Iab8ea, b/281008549)

Bug Fixes

Resolving issue arising when instantiating the database in Robolectric after the migration of Room sources from Java to Kotlin. (Ic053c, b/274924903)

Version 2.6.0-alpha01

March 22, 2023

androidx.room:room-*:2.6.0-alpha01 is released. Version 2.6.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

New Features

Supporting value classes in Room for KSP. Room is now able to support value classes in Entities. (4194095)
Kotlin code generation(or “Kotlin CodeGen”) can now be enabled in Room (4297ec0). To turn on Kotlin CodeGen in Room, add the room.generateKotlin option name to your processor options for KSP. For more details on how to pass processor options for KSP, see the KSP documentation.

API Changes

Guarding against meaningless usage of nullable collections in DAO method return types. (I777dc, b/253271782, b/259426907)
Add an API for creating a Flow that emits invalidation tracker changes. The API is useful for creating streams that need to react to database changes. (I8c790, b/252899305)

Bug Fixes

Disallow abstract properties as DAO getters or DAO queries in Kotlin codegen, instead they should be rewritten as functions to avoid the false notion that the property value is immutable and has a fixed stored result. (If6a13, b/127483380, b/257967987)

Version 2.5.2

June 21, 2023

androidx.room:room-*:2.5.2 is released. Version 2.5.2 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Fix an incompatibility issue with the kotlinx-metadata-jvm. (386d5c)
Fix an issue that causes Room to throw an error when being used in a Robolectric test. (f79bea, b/274924903)

Version 2.5.1

March 22, 2023

androidx.room:room-*:2.5.1 is released. Version 2.5.1 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Avoid checking the database parent directory in FrameworkSQLiteHelper if the database is already open. (5de86b8)
Use an isOpenInternal check when checking if the database is already open. (e91fb35)
Better handling of the reentrant case in Room's acquireTransactionThread() is now available. (219f98b). During a suspending transaction, Room uses a thread from the transaction executor, starts an event loop in it and dispatches suspending database operations to it so they are all encapsulated within the transaction coroutine. It is usually expected that the transaction thread is different from the one starting the transaction, but in some cases they are the same. To handle such reentrant cases the withTransaction() has been refactored to no longer rely on a control job and instead it will execute the suspending transaction block from within the runBlocking in the transaction thread.

Version 2.5.0

February 22, 2023

androidx.room:room-paging-guava:2.5.0, androidx.room:room-paging-rxjava2:2.5.0, and androidx.room:room-paging-rxjava3:2.5.0 are released. Version 2.5.0 contains these commits.

Version 2.5.0

January 11, 2023

androidx.room:room-*:2.5.0 is released. Version 2.5.0 contains these commits.

Important changes since 2.4.0

All of room-runtime sources has been converted from Java to Kotlin. Note that you may encounter source incompatibility issues if your code is in Kotlin due to the library conversion to Kotlin. For example, a known source incompatible change is that in InvalidationTracker you will now need to declare onInvalidate() in Observer to have a param of type Set and not MutableSet. Moreover, certain getter methods were converted to properties requiring the property access syntax on Kotlin files. Please file a bug if there are any significant incompatibilities.
Added a new shortcut annotation, @Upsert, which attempts to insert an entity when there is no uniqueness conflict or update the entity if there is a conflict. (I7aaab, b/241964353)
New room-paging artifacts room-paging-rxjava2, room-paging-rxjava3 and room-paging-guava have been added for support in Room Paging.
Added APIs for providing key and value tables names for disambiguation in @MapInfo (Icc4b5)

Version 2.5.0-rc01

December 7, 2022

androidx.room:room-*:2.5.0-rc01 is released. Version 2.5.0-rc01 contains these commits.

This release is identical to 2.5.0-beta02.

Version 2.5.0-beta02

November 9, 2022

androidx.room:room-*:2.5.0-beta02 is released. Version 2.5.0-beta02 contains these commits.

API Changes

Fix various APIs that take query arguments from invariant (Array<Any?>) to contravariant (Array<out Any?>) to match Java’s array behavior. (b/253531073)

Version 2.5.0-beta01

October 5, 2022

androidx.room:room-*:2.5.0-beta01 is released. Version 2.5.0-beta01 contains these commits.

API Changes

Restrict the minimum version that supports @Upsert to be API 16. This is due to the inability to identity a primary key constraint conflict in older APIs. (I5f67f, b/243039555)

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where shadow tables where incorrectly exported to the schema .json files, corrupting them. (I4f83b, b/246751839)

Version 2.5.0-alpha03

August 24, 2022

androidx.room:room-*:2.5.0-alpha03 is released. Version 2.5.0-alpha03 contains these commits.

New Features

Added a new shortcut annotation, @Upsert, which attempts to insert an entity when there is no uniqueness conflict or update the entity if there is a conflict. (I7aaab, b/241964353)

Bug Fixes

Room will now throw a SQLiteConstraintException instead of a IllegalStateException during an auto-migration foreign key constraint check. (I328dd)
Fix a Kotlin source incompatible change for getter / properties of getOpenHelper, getQueryExecutor and getTransactionExecutor. (Iad0ac)

Version 2.5.0-alpha02

June 1, 2022

androidx.room:room-*:2.5.0-alpha02 is released. Version 2.5.0-alpha02 contains these commits.

New Features

New room-paging artifacts room-paging-rxjava2, room-paging-rxjava3 and room-paging-guavahave been added for support in Room Paging.(41a1d4,b/203666906),(eb6098,b/203666906),(1b9ae4,b/203666906)

API Changes

All of room-runtime has been converted from Java to Kotlin. (If2069, b/206859668),(Ie4b55, b/206859668), (I697ee, b/206859668), (I96c25, b/206859668)
Note: You may encounter source incompatibility issues due to the library conversion to Kotlin. If your code was in Kotlin and calling the old version of Room, the new version will need to handle these cases. For example, a known source incompatible change is that in InvalidationTracker you will now need to declare onInvalidate() in Observer to have a param of type Set and not MutableSet.
Added APIs for providing key and value tables names for disambiguation in @MapInfo (Icc4b5)
Fix a source compatibility issue to re-allow @Ignore in property getters. (Ifc2fb)

Bug Fixes

Duplicate column resolution heuristic algorithm. Room will now attempt to resolve ambiguous columns in a multimap query. This allows for JOINs with tables containing same-name tables to be correctly mapped to a result data object. (I4b444, b/201306012, b/212279118)

Version 2.5.0-alpha01

February 23, 2022

androidx.room:room-*:2.5.0-alpha01 is released. Version 2.5.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

API Changes

Fixed an issue where Room @IntDef usage were not being enforced in Kotlin sources. (I75f41, b/217951311)
Fixed a source compatibility issue to re-allow @Query in property getters. (I0a09b)
Converted room-common from Java to Kotlin. (I69c48, b/206858235)
Note: You may encounter source incompatibility issues as some properties have been moved into companion objects during the library conversion to Kotlin. If your code was in Kotlin and calling the old version of Room, the new version will need the ".Companion" suffix when accessing these properties.
Converted room-migration from Java to Kotlin. (I2724b, b/206858622)
Converted paging related files in room-runtime from Java to Kotlin. (I82fc8, b/206859668)
Added API for multi-process lock and usage at the FrameworkSQLite* level, to protect multi-process 1st time database creation and migrations. (Ied267, b/193182592)

Bug Fixes

Added support for internal properties in Kotlin sources. This is a slight behavior change in Room where it will use the source name of functions while matching them to properties as getters/setters (previously, it was using JVM name of the function which is different for internal functions/properties). If you are using custom @JvmName annotations to match getters/setters to private properties, please double check the generated code after the update (If6531, b/205289020)

Version 2.4.3

July 27, 2022

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.3 is released. Version 2.4.3 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that would cause Room to not recognize suspend functions in Kotlin 1.7 (b/236612358)

Version 2.4.2

February 23, 2022

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.2 is released. Version 2.4.2 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Fix an issue generating code for a Dao @Transaction suspend function with a body that generates a default interface method due to compilation with -Xjvm-default=all or equivalent. (Ia4ce5)
Resolving a bug where Room generates code for a Array<ByteArray> return type query method. (If086e, b/213789489)

Version 2.4.1

January 12, 2022

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.1 is released. Version 2.4.1 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Added support for internal properties in Kotlin sources. This is a slight behavior change in Room where it will use the source name of functions while matching them to properties as getters/setters (previously, it was using JVM name of the function which is different for internal functions/properties). If you are using custom @JvmName annotations to match getters/setters to private properties, please double check the generated code after the update (If6531, b/205289020)

Version 2.4.0

December 15, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.0 is released. Version 2.4.0 contains these commits.

Important changes since 2.3.0

Auto Migrations: Room now offers an API for automatically generating migrations as long as schemas are exported. To let Room know that it should generate an auto-migration a new property @Database#autoMigrations can be used to declare the versions to auto-migrate from and to. When Room needs additional information regarding tables and column renames or deletes, then the @AutoMigration annotation can declare a specification class containing such inputs. See the @AutoMigration documentation for more details.
Dependency Injection in Auto Migrations: @ProvidedAutoMigrationSpec is a new API for declaring that an AutoMigrationSpec will be provided at runtime via RoomDatabase.Builder#addAutoMigrationSpec(). This allows for a dependency injection framework to provide such specs when they need complex dependencies.
Migration Test Helper Support for Auto Migrations: Room’s MigrationTestHelper was updated to support auto migrations by providing a new constructor API that receives the database class under test. This allows the helper to automatically add auto migrations the same way during runMigrationsAndValidate.
Room-Paging Support: androidx.room:room-paging is released, providing native Paging 3.0 support for Room queries returning androidx.paging.PagingSource.
Relational Query Methods: Room now supports multimap return types @Dao methods, useful for JOIN statements. The supported types of multimaps are Map, SparseArray, LongSparseArray, along with Guava's ImmutableMap, ImmutableSetMultimap and ImmutableListMultimap.

Version 2.4.0-rc01

December 1, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.0-rc01 is released. Version 2.4.0-rc01 contains these commits.

New Features

Update Room’s dependency on KSP to 1.6.0-1.0.1 to support Kotlin 1.6

Version 2.4.0-beta02

November 17, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.0-beta02 is released. Version 2.4.0-beta02 contains these commits.

New Features

We’ve added support for SparseArray and LongSparseArray in @MapInfo. (Ic91a2 b/138910317)

Bug Fixes

We've added a new TypeConverter analyzer that takes nullability information in types into account. As this information is only available in KSP, it is turned on by default only in KSP. If it causes any issues, you can turn it off by passing room.useNullAwareTypeAnalysis=false to the annotation processor. If that happens, please a file bug as this flag will be removed in the future. With this new TypeConverter analyzer, it is suggested to only provide non-null receiving TypeConverters as the new analyzer has the ability to wrap them with a null check. Note that this has no impact for users using KAPT or Java as the annotation processors (unlike KSP), don't have nullability information in types. (Ia88f9, b/193437407)
Fix a bug where Room would fail to compile with a SQL error when an FTS entity declared to use the ICU tokenizer. (I00db9, b/201753224)
Resolved issue in auto migrations regarding a new column added to an embedded Entity between versions. (I5fcb1 b/193798291)
We have resolved an issue regarding the relational query method return types in LEFT JOIN queries. With these changes, in the case where a 1-many mapping is present, the collection returned for a key will not include the invalid value object if it is not found in the cursor. If no valid values are found, then a key will be mapped to an empty collection. (Id5552 b/201946438)
Resolved the auto migration issue where SQLite keywords failed to be escaped in column names. (Idbed4 b/197133152)

Version 2.4.0-beta01

October 13, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.0-beta01 is released. Version 2.4.0-beta01 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue with auto-migrations not adding new columns when another table in the same auto-migration also had a new column with the same name. (Ia5db5, b/200818663)
The PagingSource implementation generated by room-paging now uses the queryExecutor passed through RoomDatabase.Builder, so it can be overridden, instead of Dispatchers.IO previously. (Iae259)

Version 2.4.0-alpha05

September 29, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.0-alpha05 is released. Version 2.4.0-alpha05 contains these commits.

New Features

Added a built-in type converter for UUID. (I671e8, b/73132006)

API Changes

Added a new property to the TypeConverters annotation to let developers disable built-in Enum and UUID converters. By default, these converters are on but you can disable them for a certain scope, or for the whole database. See TypeConverters documentation for details. (36ae9e, b/195413406)
Supporting non-POJO keys/values for Multimap return types in DAOs via the @MapInfo annotation. (I4d704)

@MapInfo will be required when the key or value column of the map are from a single column. See example:

@MapInfo(valueColumn = "songCount")
@Query("""
       SELECT *, COUNT(mSongId) as songCount
       FROM Artist JOIN Song ON Artist.artistName = Song.artist
       GROUP BY artistName
       """)
fun getArtistAndSongCounts(): Map<Artist, Integer>

Make room-paging a required artifact when using Paging3 with Room. (Ieaffe)

Bug Fixes

Fix an issue where multimap queries results were not correctly ordered when the query contained an ORDER BY clause of a column from the map's key. (I6b887)

External Contribution

Added new API to specify index order in @Index. Thanks to Nikita Zhelonkin. (I033fc)

Version 2.4.0-alpha04

July 21, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.0-alpha04 is released. Version 2.4.0-alpha04 contains these commits.

New Features

Room now supports multimap return types @Dao methods, useful for JOIN statements. The supported types of multimaps are Map along with Guava's ImmutableMap, ImmutableSetMultimap and ImmutableListMultimap.

The following are examples of multimap queries:

One-to-One Relation Map
```
@Query("SELECT * FROM Song JOIN Artist ON Song.artistId = Artist.artistId")
fun getSongAndArtist(): Map<Song, Artist>
```
One-to-Many Relation Map (Standard multimap)
```
@Query("SELECT * FROM Artist JOIN Album ON Artist.id = Album.artistId")
fun getArtistAndAlbums(): Map<Artist, List<Album>>
```
The multimap result can also be wrapped in the supported async return types, such as LiveData, Rx’s Observable, or coroutines Flow.

Note:In version 2.4.0-alpha04, only multimaps with POJOs as type parameters are supported, but in a future version String and primitives will also be supported.

Room-Paging

androidx.room:room-paging is released, providing native Paging 3.0 support for Room queries returning androidx.paging.PagingSource.
```
@Dao
interface UserDao {
  @Query("SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY id ASC")
  fun loadUsers(): PagingSource<Int, User>
}
```
This artifact replaces the androidx.paging.PagingSource implementation generated by Room with one built on top of Paging 3.0 APIs. The new PagingSource implementation parses keys differently, so any key manually supplied to Room’s PagingSource would need to account for this behavior change, including the initialKey passed via Pager’s constructor. Pages will start loading from the Key with Key being the first loaded item. This deviates from existing behavior where LoadParams.Refresh.Key is treated as the user's scroll position and items are loaded both before and after the key.
The artifact is optional and opting out will fallback to existing support for Paging 3.0 that was introduced in Room 2.3. However, this artifact will become non-optional in future release for those using Room with Paging 3.0. To opt-in, add the new room-paging artifact to your classpath. If you are using Gradle, you can add the following snippet to your build.gradle:
```
dependency {
  implementation("androidx.room:room-paging:2.4.0-alpha04")
}
```

Bug Fixes

Fix an issue in auto migrations regarding handling foreign key violations. (b/190113935)

Version 2.4.0-alpha03

June 16, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.0-alpha03 is released. Version 2.4.0-alpha03 contains these commits.

API Changes

Update Room’s MigrationTestHelper to support auto migrations by providing a new constructor API that receives the database class under test. This allows the helper to automatically add auto migrations the same way during runMigrationsAndValidate.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue with Room’s SQLite native library to support Apple’s M1 chips. (b/174695268
Fixed an issue where Room would not error out when the return type of a @Transaction function was a Flow (I56ddd, b/190075899)
Fix an issue in auto migrations regarding indices. b/177673291

Dependency Updates

Room’s KSP support now depends on KSP 1.5.10-1.0.0-beta01. (1ecb11, b/160322705)

Version 2.4.0-alpha02

May 5, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.0-alpha02 is released. Version 2.4.0-alpha02 contains these commits.

API Changes

@ProvidedAutoMigrationSpec is a new API for declaring that an AutoMigrationSpec will be provided at runtime via RoomDatabase.Builder#addAutoMigrationSpec(). This allows for a dependency injection framework to provide such specs when they need complex dependencies.

Bug Fixes

Fix an issue with auto migrations where @DatabaseViews where not being properly re-created.

External Contribution

Fix an issue in Room’s JournalMode.TRUNCATE where the InvalidationTracker callback was sometimes being invoked invalidly, too late, or not at all. Thanks to Uli Bubenheimer | bubenheimer@users.noreply.github.com (b/154040286)

Version 2.4.0-alpha01

April 21, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.4.0-alpha01 is released. Version 2.4.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

New Features

Auto Migrations: Room now offers an API for automatically generating migrations as long as schemas are exported. To let Room know that it should generate an auto-migration a new property @Database#autoMigrations can be used to declare the versions to auto-migrate from and to. When Room needs additional information regarding tables and column renames or deletes, then the @AutoMigration annotation can declare a specification class containing such inputs. See the @AutoMigration documentation for more details.

Bug Fixes

Fix an issue where defaultValue with extra parenthesis were being incorrectly validated by Room’s schema validation. b/182284899

Version 2.3.0

April 21, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.3.0 is released. Version 2.3.0 contains these commits.

Important changes since 2.2.0

Built-in Enum Support: Room will now default to using an Enum to String and vice versa type converter if none is provided. If a type converter for an enum already exists, Room will prioritize using it over the default one.
Query Callback: Room now offers a general callback API RoomDatabase.QueryCallback, for when queries are about to execute, which can be useful for logging in debug builds. The callback can be set via RoomDatabase.Builder#setQueryCallback().
Pre-packaged Improvement: Room now has APIs for creating a database using a pre-packaged database read from an input stream. This allows for cases such as when the pre-package database is gzipped.
Provided Type Converters: Room now has APIs for providing instances of type converters such that the app can control their initialization. To mark a type converter that will be provided to Room use the new annotation @ProvidedTypeConverter.
RxJava3 Support: Room now supports RxJava3 types. Similar to RxJava2 you can declare DAO methods whose return type are Flowable, Single, Maybe and Completable. Additionally a new artifact androidx.room:room-rxjava3 is available to support RxJava3.
Paging 3.0 Support: Room will now support generating implementations for @Query annotated methods whose return type is androidx.paging.PagingSource.

Version 2.3.0-rc01

March 24, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.3.0-rc01 is released. Version 2.3.0-rc01 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Fix an issue that prevented Coroutine Flow queries created by Room to be consumed in a suspending withTransaction block. (I797bf)

Version 2.3.0-beta03

March 10, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.3.0-beta03 is released. Version 2.3.0-beta03 contains these commits.

New Features

Added incremental compilation support for KSP. (I031c1, b/176453350)

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where creating PagingSource on the main thread could trigger an ANR. (I42b74, b/181221318)
Fixed @ExperimentalRoomApi visibility to be public instead of package private. (b/181356119)

External Contribution

Allow Room to accept a POJO return type in a @Query annotated DAO method when it is also annotated with @SkipQueryVerification. Room will do a best-effort to convert the result of the query to the POJO return type the same way it is done for a @RawQuery annotated DAO method. Thanks to ‘Markus Riegel | hey@marcorei.com’. (I45acb)

Version 2.3.0-beta02

February 18, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.3.0-beta02 is released. Version 2.3.0-beta02 contains these commits.

New Features

Room now has experimental support for Kotlin Symbol Processing KSP.

KSP is a replacement for KAPT to run annotation processors natively on the Kotlin compiler, significantly reducing build times.

To use Room with KSP, you can apply the KSP Gradle plugin and replace the kapt configuration in your build file with ksp. For example, instead of kapt 'androidx.room:room-compiler:2.3.0-beta02' use ksp 'androidx.room:room-compiler:2.3.0-beta02'. See the KSP documentation for more details.

Note that since KSP is experimental, it is recommended to still use KAPT for production code. The reduction of build times is only applicable if there are no other processors that use KAPT. See b/160322705 for known issues.

Version 2.3.0-beta01

January 27, 2021

androidx.room:room-*:2.3.0-beta01 is released. Version 2.3.0-beta01 contains these commits.

New Features

Auto Closable Databases: Room now has the ability to close databases that are not accessed after a given amount of time. This is an experimental feature and can be enabled by calling RoomDatabase.Builder#setAutoCloseTimeout(). This feature is useful for applications with multiple databases.

Bug Fixes

Fix an issue where Dao methods with multiple @Update or @Delete methods with different conflict strategies would generate code with only one of the strategies, effectively ignoring the defined one. (/I0b90d, b/176138543)

Version 2.3.0-alpha04

December 16, 2020

androidx.room:room-*:2.3.0-alpha04 is released. Version 2.3.0-alpha04 contains these commits.

New Features

Room now offers a general callback API RoomDatabase.QueryCallback, for when queries are about to execute, which can be useful for logging in debug builds. The callback can be set via RoomDatabase.Builder#setQueryCallback(). (Iaa513, b/174478034, b/74877608)
Room will now default to using an Enum to String and vice versa type converter if none is provided. If a type converter for an enum already exists, Room will prioritize using it over the default one. (b/73132006)

Known Issue

If a one-way type converter for reading already exists for the Enum, Room might accidentally use the built-in String to Enum converter which might not be desired. This is a known issue and can be fixed by making it a two-way converter. See: b/175707691

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where Room would incorrectly disabled incremental annotation processing in newer JDK versions. (b/171387388)
Fixed an issue with Room finding the generated class when multiple class loaders are used. Thanks for the fix ‘Serendipity | 892449346@qq.com’! (b/170141113)
Fixed an issue where Room would generate incorrect code when a Kotlin @Dao had a base class whose generics are primitives in the JVM. (b/160258066)

External Contribution

Room will now default to using beginTransactionNonExclusive if WAL mode is enabled and API is 16 or more. Thanks to ‘Ahmed I. Khalil | ahmedibrahimkhali@gmail.com’! (b/126258791)

Version 2.3.0-alpha03

October 14, 2020

androidx.room:room-*:2.3.0-alpha03 is released. Version 2.3.0-alpha03 contains these commits.

New Features

Room now has APIs for providing instances of type converters such that the app can control their initialization. To mark a type converter that will be provided to Room use the new annotation @ProvidedTypeConverter. Thanks to ‘mzgreen yairobbe@gmail.com’. (Ie4fa5, b/121067210)
Room now has APIs for creating a database using a pre-packaged database read from an input stream. This allows for cases such as when the pre-package database is gzipped. Thanks to ‘Ahmed El-Helw ahmedre@gmail.com’ (3e6792, b/146911060)

API Changes

Added missing target to @ForeignKey annotation preventing its usage outside of the @Entity annotation. (Iced1e)
The field mCallbacks inRoomDatabase.java is now hidden. (d576cb, b/76109329)

Bug Fixes

Update to TypeConverters documentation to clarify that TypeConverters can only be used to convert columns / fields and not rows. (I07c56, b/77307836)
Update to the DaoProcessor to fix compiler error on Dao with a generic super type with Kotlin "primitives". (Ice6bb, b/160258066)
Update add/remove observer methods documentation to clarify threading (Ifd1d9, b/153948821)
Fix an issue with Room incorrectly validating FTS tables that declared their rowid column. (d62ebc, b/145858914)

External Contributions

Fix upper/lowercase locale issues related to Turkish (5746e3), b/68159494
Replace the ConcurrentHashMap inside RoomDatabase with Collections.synchronizedMap() to avoid issues on Android Lollipop (d1cfc7, b/162431855)
Add a onOpenPrepackagedDatabase callback for when a prepackaged DB is copied. (I1ba74, b/148934423)

Version 2.3.0-alpha02

July 22, 2020

androidx.room:room-*:2.3.0-alpha02 is released. Version 2.3.0-alpha02 contains these commits.

New Features

RxJava3 Support: Room now supports RxJava3 types. Similar to RxJava2 you can declare DAO methods whose return type are Flowable, Single, Maybe and Completable. Additionally a new artifact androidx.room:room-rxjava3 is available to support RxJava3. (b/152427884)

API Changes

Declaring a @TypeConverter in Kotlin Object class is now supported. (b/151110764)
Room's incremental annotation processing option is now ON by default. (b/112110217)

Version 2.3.0-alpha01

June 10, 2020

androidx.room:room-*:2.3.0-alpha01 is released. Version 2.3.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

New Features

Paging 3.0 Support: Room will now support generating implementations for@Query annotated methods whose return type is androidx.paging.PagingSource.
```
@Dao
interface UserDao {
  @Query("SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY id ASC")
  fun pagingSource(): PagingSource<Int, User>
}
```

API Changes

@RewriteQueriesToDropUnusedColumns is a new convenient annotation that makes Room rewrite the ‘*’ projection in a query such that unused columns in the result are removed.
The processor option room.expandProjection is now deprecated. Use @RewriteQueriesToDropUnusedColumns as a replacement for Room optimizing queries with star projections. Note that @RewriteQueriesToDropUnusedColumns does not replace the column conflict solution room.expandProjection offered with regards to return types that contained @Embedded fields.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where Room would not correctly detect the JDK version used to enable incremental annotation processor. Thanks to Blaz Solar (me@blaz.solar) (b/155215201)
Room now embeds its ANTLR dependency with the annotation processor to avoid version conflicts with other processors that also use ANTLR. (b/150106190)

Version 2.2.6

December 16, 2020

androidx.room:room-*:2.2.6 is released. Version 2.2.6 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where Room would incorrectly disabled incremental annotation processing in newer JDK versions. (b/171387388)

Version 2.2.5

March 18, 2020

androidx.room:room-*:2.2.5 is released. Version 2.2.5 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Make MultiInstanceInvalidationService directBootAware. Thanks to ‘Mygod contact-git@mygod.be’ (b/148240967)
Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when multi-instance invalidation was enabled and the database contained a FTS entity. (b/148969394)
Fixed an issue when loading the SQLite native libraries in the Room annotation processor that would cause the compiler to crash due to parallel compilations. (b/146217083)

Version 2.2.4

February 19, 2020

androidx.room:room-common:2.2.4, androidx.room:room-compiler:2.2.4, androidx.room:room-guava:2.2.4, androidx.room:room-ktx:2.2.4, androidx.room:room-migration:2.2.4, androidx.room:room-runtime:2.2.4, androidx.room:room-rxjava2:2.2.4, and androidx.room:room-testing:2.2.4 are released. Version 2.2.4 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue with suspending transactions where they would deadlock if the coroutine was canceled quickly before the transaction actually started. (b/148181325)
Fixed an issue with the @Generated being wrongly used when building with JDK 9. (b/146538330)
Fixed an issue where Room would generate incorrect code when a DAO interface in Kotlin had a concrete function. (b/146825845)

Version 2.2.3

December 18, 2019

androidx.room:room-*:2.2.3 is released. Version 2.2.3 contains these commits.

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where Room would fail to validate a database that had not gone through any migration and contained a legacy hash with indices in its schema. (b/139306173)

Version 2.2.2

November 20, 2019

androidx.room:room-*:2.2.2 is released. Version 2.2.2 contains these commits.

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where collecting a one-to-one relationship with more than 999 rows would cause Room to return null relating items. (b/143105450)

Version 2.2.1

October 23, 2019

androidx.room:room-*:2.2.1 is released. Version 2.2.1 contains these commits.

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where Room would incorrectly warn about CURSOR_MISMATCH with the compiler optionexpandProjection turned ON. (b/140759491)
Added a retry mechanism for handling the missing native library used for verifying queries during compile time.

Version 2.2.0

October 9, 2019

androidx.room:room-*:2.2.0 is released. Version 2.2.0 contains these commits.

Important changes since version 2.1.0

Pre-packaged Database: Two new APIs in RoomDatabase.Builder are now available for creating a RoomDatabase given an already populated database file. createFromAsset() is for when the pre-populated database file is in the assets folder of the APK, while createFromFile() is for when the file is in an arbitrary location. The usages of these API change the behaviour of destructive migrations such that during a fallback migration, Room will try to re-copy the pre-populated database if available, otherwise it fallbacks to just dropping and re-creating all tables. b/62185732
Schema Default Values: @ColumnInfo now has a new property defaultValue that can be used to specify the default value of a column. Default values are part of a database schema and will be validated during migrations if specified. b/64088772
Many-to-Many Relations: @Relation now has a new property associateBy, that takes in a new annotation @Junction, used to declare a relation that needs to be satisfied via a junction table (also known as a join table). b/69201917
One-to-One Relations: The restriction in POJO fields annotated with @Relation to be of type List or Set has been lifted, effectively allowing single-value relations to be represented. b/62905145
Target Entity: The DAO annnotations @Insert, @Update and @Delete now has a new property targetEntity, that allows specifying the target table the DAO method is meant to act on. This allows for the parameters of those DAO methods to be arbitrary POJOs which will be interpreted as partial entities. In practice, this allows partial inserts, deletes and updates. b/127549506
Coroutines Flow: @Query DAO methods can now be of return type Flow<T>. The returned Flow will re-emit a new set of values if the observing tables in the query are invalidated. Declaring a DAO function with a Channel<T> return type is an error, Room instead encourages you to use Flow and then use the neighboring functions to convert the Flow into a Channel. b/130428884
Gradle Incremental Annotation Processor: Room is now a Gradle isolating annotation processor and incrementability can be enabled via the processor option room.incremental. See Room Compiler Options for more information. If you encounter any issues please file a bug here. We plan to enable incrementability by default in a future, stable version. b/112110217
Expanding Projections: A new experimental compiler option room.expandProjection was added that causes Room to rewrite a query with a star projection to only contain the columns in the returning type POJO. For example, for a DAO method with @Query("SELECT * FROM Song") that returns a POJO named SongIdAndTitle with only two fields. Then Room will rewrite the query to SELECT id, title FROM Song such that the minimum set of columns to satisfy the return type are fetched. This essentially eliminates the CURSOR_MISMATCH warning that is presented when the query returns extra columns that do not match any field in the returning POJO type.

Version 2.2.0-rc01

September 5, 2019

androidx.room:room:2.2.0-rc01 is released. The commits included in this version can be found here.

No public changes since Room 2.2.0-beta01.

Version 2.2.0-beta01

August 22, 2019

androidx.room:room-*:2.2.0-beta01 is released. The commits included in this version can be found here.

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where a Coroutine Flow query would stop reemitting new values after a certain time. (b/139175786)
Fixed a bug where Room would not accept a legacy schema hash code while opening a database that had not gone a migration since Room 1.0, causing a runtime crash due to invalid schema. (b/139306173)

Version 2.2.0-alpha02

August 7, 2019

androidx.room:room-*:2.2.0-alpha02 is released. The commits included in this version can be found here.

New Features

Coroutines Flow: @Query DAO methods can now be of return type Flow<T>. The returned Flow will re-emit a new set of values if the observing tables in the query are invalidated. Declaring a DAO function with a Channel<T> return type is an error, Room instead encourages you to use Flow and then use the neighboring functions to convert the Flow into a Channel. b/130428884
Expanding Projections: A new experimental compiler option room.expandProjection was added that causes Room to rewrite a query with a star projection to only contain the columns in the returning type POJO. For example, for a DAO method with @Query("SELECT * FROM Song") that returns a POJO named SongIdAndTitle with only two fields. Then Room will rewrite the query to SELECT id, title FROM Song such that the minimum set of columns to satisfy the return type are fetched. This essentially eliminates the CURSOR_MISMATCH warning that is presented when the query returns extra columns that do not match any field in the returning POJO type.
onDestructiveMigrate is a new callback API added to RoomDatabase.Callback for when Room destructively migrates a database. b/79962330

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where Room would generate incorrect code using a method as field setter when the field is protected. b/136194628
Fixed a bug that caused the InvalidationTracker to throw a NPE in a second process when multi-instance invalidation was enabled and the invalidation Service was killed. b/137454915
Fixed a bug where Room would not correctly identify the return type of an inherited suspend function annotated with @RawQuery. b/137878827
Updated the generated code for @Relation when the relating key is of type BLOB to use a ByteBuffer that is comparable. b/137881998
Fixed a bug where Room would complain about missing setters on POJOs used as partial entity parameters of @Insert, @Update and @Delete. b/138664463
Fixed a bug where Room would complain about missing getters & setters for an ignored column via @Entity when the entity class was used in certain DAO methods. b/138238182
Fixed a bug where Room would not correctly convert named binding args to positional args causing a runtime exception when executing a query with re-used parameters. b/137254857

Version 2.2.0-alpha01

July 10, 2019

New Features

Pre-packaged Database: Two new APIs in RoomDatabase.Builder are now available for creating a RoomDatabase given an already populated database file. createFromAsset() is for when the pre-populated database file is in the assets folder of the APK, while createFromFile() is for when the file is in an arbitrary location. The usages of these API change the behaviour of destructive migrations such that during a fallback migration, Room will try to re-copy the pre-populated database if available, otherwise it fallbacks to just dropping and re-creating all tables. b/62185732
Schema Default Values: @ColumnInfo now has a new property defaultValue that can be used to specify the default value of a column. Default values are part of a database schema and will be validated during migrations if specified. b/64088772
Note: If your database schema already has default values, such as those added via ALTER TABLE x ADD COLUMN y INTEGER NOTNULL DEFAULT z, and you decide to define default values via @ColumnInfo to the same columns, then you might need to provide a migration to validate the unaccounted default values. See Room Migrations for more information.
Many-to-Many Relations: @Relation now has a new property associateBy, that takes in a new annotation @Junction, used to declare a relation that needs to be satisfied via a junction table (also known as a join table). b/69201917
One-to-One Relations: The restriction in POJO fields annotated with @Relation to be of type List or Set has been lifted, effectively allowing single-value relations to be represented. b/62905145
Target Entity: The DAO annnotations @Insert, @Update and @Delete now has a new property targetEntity, that allows specifying the target table the DAO method is meant to act on. This allows for the parameters of those DAO methods to be arbitrary POJOs which will be interpreted as partial entities. In practice, this allows partial inserts, deletes and updates. b/127549506
Gradle Incremental Annotation Processor: Room is now a Gradle isolating annotation processor and incrementability can be enabled via the processor option room.incremental. See Room Compiler Options for more information. If you encounter any issues please file a bug here. We plan to enable incrementability by default in a future, stable version. b/112110217

Bug Fixes

Room will no longer propagate the EmptySetResultException to the global error handler when the Rx stream of a query has been disposed before the query is complete. b/130257475
Fixed a bug where Room would show an incorrect error message when a suspend DAO function annotated with @RawQuery didn't have a return type. b/134303897
Room will no longer generate DAO adapters with raw types. b/135747255

Version 2.1.0

June 13, 2019

Room 2.1.0 is released with no changes from 2.1.0-rc01. The commits included in the version can be found here.

Important changes since 2.0.0

FTS: Room now supports entities with a mapping FTS3 or FTS4 table. Classes annotated with @Entity can now be additionally annotated with @Fts3 or @Fts4 to declare a class with a mapping full-text search table. FTS options for further customization are available via the annotation’s methods.
Views: Room now supports declaring a class as a stored query, also known as a view, using the @DatabaseView annotation.
Couroutines: DAO methods can now be suspend functions. Include room-ktx in your dependencies to take advantage of this functionality. The ktx artifact also provides the extension function RoomDatabase.withTransaction for performing database transactions within a coroutine.
Auto Value: Room now supports declaring AutoValue annotated classes as entities and POJOs. The Room annotations @PrimaryKey, @ColumnInfo, @Embedded and @Relation can now be declared in an auto value annotated class’s abstract methods. Note that these annotation must also be accompanied by @CopyAnnotations for Room to properly understand them.
Additional Async Support: DAO methods annotated with @Insert, @Delete or @Update, along with @Query containing INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE statements, now support Rx return types Completable, Single, Maybe, and Guava's return type ListenableFuture, and they can also be suspend functions.
enableMultiInstanceInvalidation is a new API in RoomDatabase.Builder to enable invalidation across multiple instances of RoomDatabase using the same database file.
fallbackToDestructiveMigrationOnDowngrade is a new API in RoomDatabase.Builder to automatically re-create the database if a downgrade happens.
ignoredColumns is a new API in the @Entity annotation that can be used to list ignored fields by name.
Room will now properly use Kotlin’s primary constructor in data classes avoiding the need to declare the properties as vars.

Version 2.1.0-rc01

May 29, 2019

Bug Fixes

Fixed a Room initialization error that might occur due to an already setup temp_store configuration. b/132602198
Fixed a double quote usage warning for users with SQLite 3.27.0 and above. b/131712640
Fixed a bug where the InvalidationTracker would cause a crash when multiple invalidation checks would occur in parallel. b/133457594

Version 2.1.0-beta01

May 7, 2019

androidx.room 2.1.0-beta01 is released with no changes from 2.1.0-alpha07. The commits included in this version can be found here.

Version 2.1.0-alpha07

April 25, 2019

API / Behavior Changes

The extension function RoomDatabase.withTransaction has been changed to no longer take a function block with a CoroutineScope as receiver. This prevents skipping the additional coroutineScope { } wrapper required to run things in the transaction block concurrently.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where Room would fail to match a TypeConverter for a Kotlin DAO function containing a parameter of Collection type. b/122066791

Version 2.1.0-alpha06

March 22, 2019

API / Behavior Changes

Async transaction queries are now serialized such that Room will not use more than one thread for executing database transactions. RoomDatabase.Builder.setTransactionExecutor(Executor) was added to allow configuring the executor to be used for transactions.
RoomDatabase.runInTransaction(Callable) will no longer wrap checked exceptions into RuntimeExceptions. b/128623748

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where the invalidation tracker would stop observing a content table if observers for both the content table and an external content FTS table were added. b/128508917
Updated Room's SQLite grammar to match SQLite 3.24.0. b/110883668

Version 2.1.0-alpha05

March 13, 2019

New Features

The extension function RoomDatabase.withTransaction allows you to safely perform database transactions within a coroutine. Room extensions functions along with coroutines support are available in the room-ktx artifact.
Non-abstract DAO methods annotated with @Transaction can now be suspend functions. b/120241587

API / Behavior Changes

The artifact room-coroutines has been renamed to room-ktx following the same naming as other androidx artifacts.
beginTransaction, setTransactionSuccessful and endTransaction in RoomDatabase have been deprecated in favor of runInTransaction and the room-ktx extension function withTransaction.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where tokenizer arguments were being dropped if the tokenizer used was SIMPLE. b/125427014
Fixed a bug where Room would fail to correctly identify suspending functions with parameters whos type were an inner class. b/123767877
Fixed a bug where deferred @Query DAO method with INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statements were eagerly preparing the query in the main thread. b/123695593
Fixed various bugs where Room would generate incorrect code for certain suspend functions. b/123466702 and b/123457323
Fixed a bug where deprecated usage of methods were not being correctly suppressed in generated code. b/117602586
Updated Room dependency of androidx.sqlite to 1.0.2 which contain fixes for correctly handling corrupted databases. b/124476912

Known Issues

Room 2.1.0-alpha05 depends on the kotlinx-metadata-jvm artifact which is not currently available in Maven Central (KT-27991). This dependency can be resolved by adding maven { url "https://kotlin.bintray.com/kotlinx/" } to your project repositories.

Version 2.1.0-alpha04

January 25, 2019

New Features

DAO methods annotated with @Query containing INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statements can now return async types Single, Mayble, Completable and ListenableFuture. Additionally they can also be suspend functions. b/120227284

API / Behavior Changes

Room will now throw an error if a non-abstract DAO method annotated with @Transaction returns an async type such as Single, Mayble, Completable, LiveData or ListenableFuture. Since transactions are thread confined it is currently impossible for Room to begin and end a transaction around a function that may peform queries in different threads. b/120109336
OnConflictStrategy.FAIL and OnConflictStrategy.ROLLBACK have been @Deprecated since they do not behave as intended with Android's current SQLite bindings. b/117266738

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where Room wouldn't correctly use the TypeConverter of a return type if the DAO method was a suspend function. b/122988159
Fixed a bug where Room would incorrectly identify inherited suspend functions as non-suspending. b/122902595
Fixed a bug where Room would generate incorrect code when an @Embedded field was in a parent class and used in multiple child classes. b/121099048
Fixed an issue where the database would deadlock when invoking DAO suspend functions between a beginTransaction() and endTransaction(). b/120854786

Version 2.1.0-alpha03

December 4, 2018

API Changes

The FTS tokenizer in @Fts3/@Fts4 now takes a String instead of an Enum. This allows custom tokenizers to be used by Room. Built-in tokenizers are still defined in FtsOptions as string constants. b/119234881

New Features

Couroutines: DAO methods can now be suspend functions. To support suspend functions in Room a new artifact has been released, room-coroutines. b/69474692
DAO methods annotated with @Insert, @Delete or @Update now support ListenableFuture as return type. b/119418331

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where Room would incorrectly attempt to find a constructor with columns in the ignoredColumns property of @Entity. b/119830714
Fixed a bug where Room would not mark DAO method parameters as final in their generated implementation. b/118015483
Fixed a bug where Room's processor would crash when reporting an error on a query with special symbols. b/119520136
Fixed a bug where Room would decline other various Collection implementations as arguments of an IN expression. b/119884035
Fixed a bug where LiveData returned from Room would get garbage collected when observed forever causing it to no longer emit new data. b/74477406
Updated RoomDatabase's close lock to reduce lock contention. b/117900450

Version 2.1.0-alpha02

October 30, 2018

New Features

Added support for referencing a @DatabaseView in a @Relation. b/117680932

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where Room would perform disk I/O in the main thread when subscribing and disposing from an Rx return type. b/117201279
Fixed a bug where Room would fail to find an appropriate type converter for a field in a Kotlin entity class. b/111404868
Fixed a bug where Room would generate incorrect code for a DAO interface implementation containing a Kotlin default method that has no arguments. b/117527454
Updated Room's SQLite grammar parser, fixing a performance issue that would cause long build times. b/117401230

Version 2.1.0-alpha01

October 8, 2018

New Features

FTS: Room now supports entities with a mapping FTS3 or FTS4 table. Classes annotated with @Entity can now be additionally annotated with @Fts3 or @Fts4 to declare a class with a mapping full-text search table. FTS options for further customization are available via the annotation’s methods. b/62356416
Views: Room now supports declaring a class as a stored query, also known as a view using the @DatabaseView annotation. b/67033276
Auto Value: Room now supports declaring AutoValue annotated classes as entities and POJOs. The Room annotations @PrimaryKey, @ColumnInfo, @Embedded and @Relation can now be declared in an auto value annotated class’ abstract methods. Note that these annotation must also be accompanied by @CopyAnnotations for Room to properly understand them. b/62408420
Additional Rx Return Types Support: DAO methods annotated with @Insert, @Delete or @Update now support Rx return types Completable, Single<T> and Maybe<T>. b/63317956
Immutable Types with @Relation: Room previously required @Relation annotated fields to be settable but now they can be constructor parameters.
enableMultiInstanceInvalidation: Is a new API in RoomDatabase.Builder to enable invalidation across multiple instances of RoomDatabase using the same database file. This multi-instance invalidation mechanism also works across multiple processes. b/62334005
fallbackToDestructiveMigrationOnDowngrade: Is a new API in RoomDatabase.Builder to automatically re-create the database if a downgrade happens. b/110416954
ignoredColumns: Is a new API in the @Entity annotation that can be used to list ignored fields by name. Useful for ignoring inherited fields on an entity. b/63522075

API / Behavior Changes

mCallback and mDatabase in RoomDatabase are now @Deprecated and will be removed in the next major version of Room. b/76109329

Bug Fixes

Fixed two issues where Room wouldn’t properly recover from a corrupted database or a bad migration during initialization. b/111504749 and b/111519144
Room will now properly use Kotlin’s primary constructor in data classes avoiding the need to declare the fields as vars. b/105769985

Version 2.0.0

October 1, 2018

androidx.room 2.0.0 is released with no changes from 2.0.0-rc01.

Version 2.0.0-rc01

September 20, 2018

androidx.room 2.0.0-rc01 is released with no changes from 2.0.0-beta01.

Version 2.0.0-beta01

July 2, 2018

API / Behavior Changes

Added RoomDatabase.Builder.setQueryExecutor() to allow customization of where queries are run
Added RxJava2 Observable support
Generated DAO and Database implementations are now final

Bug Fixes

Specify class/field name in "cannot find getter for field" error b/73334503
Fixed RoomOpenHelper backwards compatibility with older versions of Room b/110197391

Pre-AndroidX Dependencies

For the pre-AndroidX versions of Room, include these dependencies:

dependencies {
    def room_version = "1.1.1"

    implementation "android.arch.persistence.room:runtime:$room_version"
    annotationProcessor "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:$room_version" // For Kotlin use kapt instead of annotationProcessor

    // optional - RxJava support for Room
    implementation "android.arch.persistence.room:rxjava2:$room_version"

    // optional - Guava support for Room, including Optional and ListenableFuture
    implementation "android.arch.persistence.room:guava:$room_version"

    // Test helpers
    testImplementation "android.arch.persistence.room:testing:$room_version"
}

Version 1.1.1

June 19, 2018

Room 1.1.1 is identical to Room 1.1.1-rc1.

Version 1.1.1-rc1

May 16, 2018 We highly recommend using Room 1.1.1-rc1 instead of 1.1.0 if you are using migrations.

Fixed a bug where Room would not handle post migration initialization properly b/79362399

Version 1.1.0

Version 1.1.0-beta3

April 19, 2018

Bug Fixes

Fix compilation error when a Kotlin POJO references a relation entity that was defined in Java b/78199923

Version 1.1.0-beta2

April 5, 2018

Bug Fixes

Fixed a critical bug in Room's Rx Single and Maybe implementations where it would recycle the query ahead of time, causing problems if you add more than 1 observer to the returned Single or Maybe instancces. b/76031240
[RoomDatabase.clearAllTables][ref-clearAllTables] will not VACUUM the database if it is called inside a transaction. b/77235565

Version 1.1.0-beta1

March 21, 2018

API Changes

Based on API Review feedback, @RawQuery does not accept passing a String as the query parameter anymore. You need to use [SupportSQLiteQuery][ref-SupportSQLiteQuery]. (see [SimpleSQLiteQuery][ref-SimpleSQLiteQuery] to easily create an instance of [SupportSQLiteQuery][ref-SupportSQLiteQuery] with argument support).
RoomDatabase.Builder's [fallbackToDestructiveMigrationFrom][ref-fallbackToDestructiveMigrationFrom] method now accepts vararg int instead of vararg Integer.

Bug Fixes

[RoomDatabase.clearAllTables][ref-clearAllTables] now tries to return space back to the operating system by setting a WAL checkpoint and VACUUMing the database.
[@RawQuery][ref-RawQuery] now accepts any Pojo for the observedEntities property as long as the Pojo references to one or more entities via its Embedded fields or Relations. b/74041772
Paging: Room’s DataSource implementation now correctly handles multi-table dependencies (such as relations, and joins). Previously these would fail to trigger new results, or could fail to compile. b/74128314

Version 1.1.0-alpha1

January 22, 2018

New Features

RawQuery: This new API allows @Dao methods to receive the SQL as a query parameter b/62103290, b/71458963
fallBackToDestructiveMigrationsFrom: This new API in RoomDatabase.Builder allows for finer grained control over from which starting schema versions destructive migrations are allowed (as compared to fallbackToDestructiveMigration) b/64989640
Room now only supports newer Paging APIs (alpha-4+), dropping support for the deprecated LivePagedListProvider. To use the new Room alpha, you’ll need to use paging alpha-4 or higher, and switch from LivePagedListProvider to LivePagedListBuilder if you haven’t already.

Bug Fixes

Improved support for Kotlin Kapt types. b/69164099
Order of fields do not invalidate schema anymore. b/64290754