Using room as singleton in kotlin

Question

I\'m trying to use Room as singleton so I didn\'t have to invoke Room.databaseBuilder() -which is expensive- more than once.

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Answer 1

In this particular case I would resort to using Dagger 2, or some other dependency injection library like Koin or Toothpick. All three libraries allow to provide dependancies as singletons.

Here's the code for Dagger 2 module:

@Module
class AppModule constructor(private val context: Context) {
    @Provides
    @Singleton
    fun providesDatabase(): AppDatabase {
        return Room.databaseBuilder(
                context,
                AppDatabase::class.java,
                "train.db")
                .build()
    }
}

AppComponent:

@Singleton
@Component(modules = arrayOf(
        AppModule::class
))
interface AppComponent {
    fun inject(viewModel: YourViewModel)
    fun inject(repository: YourRepository)
}

Application class to provide injection:

class App : Application() {
    companion object {
        private lateinit var appComponent: AppComponent
        val component: AppComponent get() = appComponent
    }

    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()
        initializeDagger()
    }

    private fun initializeDagger() {
        component = DaggerAppComponent.builder()
                .appModule(AppModule(this))
                .build()
    }
}

And then inject your database as singleton to wherever you need it (for example in your app's repository):

@Inject lateinit var appDatabase: AppDatabase

init {
    App.component.inject(this)
}