Room - Custom SQL Table and Column Names

This lesson will explain how Room maps your entity and its fields into SQL tables and columns, and demonstrate how you can customize how it does this if desired.

We'll also show how to inspect the auto-generated code that Room saves you from writing.

Summary of content

• Default behaviour for deciding SQL table and column names
• tableName property to customize SQLite table name
• @ColumnInfo annotation to customise SQLite column name
• How to inspect the auto-generated database code to see what Room is doing under the hood

Links

• Room Persistence Library
• Android Architecture Components
• ColumnInfo annotation
• Entity