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Inspect and update local databases

Inspect and update local databases

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Inspect and update local databases

- [Instructor] Android Studio 4.1 adds a great new tool called the database inspector. If you have a project that uses a database you might see a tab up here labeled database inspector. But if you don't see it, you can get to the Window by going to the view menu, to tool Windows, and then choosing database inspector from there. Now to demonstrate this, I'm going to use an existing application that has an integrated SQL like database. I'm using plain old notes for and I showed how to clone the repository for this application in a previous chapter of the course. This application uses the room Jetpack library to manage an SQLite database on the device. The app database class, defines the name of the database it's named plain old notes here. I'll run the application on a device, I'm using a virtual device but you could use a physical device instead. Once the application is open, I can go to the database inspector and I…

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