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

Here's how i figured out...

@Database(entities = [MyEntity::class], version = dbVersion, exportSchema = true)
abstract class AppDB : RoomDatabase() {

// First create a companion object with getInstance method
    companion object {
        fun getInstance(context: Context): AppDB = 
    Room.databaseBuilder(context.applicationContext, AppDB::class.java, dbName).build()
    }

    abstract fun getMyEntityDao(): MyEntityDao
}

// This is the Singleton class that holds the AppDB instance 
// which make the AppDB singleton indirectly
// Get the AppDB instance via AppDBProvider through out the app
object AppDBProvider {

private var AppDB: AppDB? = null

    fun getInstance(context: Context): AppDB {
        if (appDB == null) {
            appDB = AppDB.getInstance(context)
        }
       return appDB!!
    }

}