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I know I\'m usually talking about the things I wish Google would change.
I stand by everything I say, but recently I had good things to say about
Google and their update to Android studio.
In my spare time I\'ve been reading more on devops things, but in
particular I want to learn more of the native backend things for both
Android and iOS so I can make the process faster. Recently that means
playing around in Room. Now I\'m not a SQL expert but this is where I
praise google. There is a database inspector that lets me do two key
things:
1. See what is in the database of my emulator during testing
2. Allowing me to run test queries on data within the inspector
Seeing the data has been a game changer for me. Allows me to quickly
view what is going on and make sure I\'m saving or update things
correctly (I usually am). Being able to test queries saves me sooooo
much time before I write a query in the DAO (data access object). A
picture of the button to test queries is below.
So why am I so excited? In the past with sqlite/room I\'d be looking for
some online sql test and it was hard because I\'d have to try to
recreate the tables I\'m using and have a bunch of windows open just to
test 1-2 lines. Now I can have w3 schools sql open and then test
everything on the local database (if you are testing delete be careful
lol). I\'m no longer trying to write more sql than what I need and for
that I\'m grateful.
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That is is. That is all the good stuff I have about Google lately. lol I
will say I\'m interested to see how Jetpack Compose works with Room, but
I\'m not there yet. Maybe in a few months I\'ll be back to talk about it
but I don\'t see me making that move any time soon.
![The button to test a sql
query](/content/images/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-12.49.44-AM.png){.kg-image}