How to import Room Persistence Library to an Android project

Question

I recently saw the new feature announced on Google I/O Room Persistence Library to work with Sqlite databases on Android. I have been looking to the official documentation and I

Answer 1

As of July 2019 if you wish to use Room with Kotlin, AndroidX, Coroutines or RxJava add lines below.

   // Room
    implementation 'androidx.room:room-runtime:' + rootProject.roomVersion
    // For Kotlin use kapt instead of annotationProcessor
    kapt 'androidx.room:room-compiler:' + rootProject.roomVersion
    // optional - Kotlin Extensions and Coroutines support for Room
    implementation 'androidx.room:room-ktx:' + rootProject.roomVersion
    // optional - RxJava support for Room
    implementation 'androidx.room:room-rxjava2:' + rootProject.roomVersion