[SOLVED] Realm Database Tutorial for Android

Welcome friends, In this blog I am going to talk about Realm Database. It is fast and easy way to create local storage database in Android apps. It is supereasy than the traditional method of creating databases using SQLite.

So, without much ado, let’s get started!
1. Installation
Step 1: Add the classpath dependency to the project level build.gradle file.
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buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath "io.realm:realm-gradle-plugin:10.0.1"
    }
}

Step 2: Apply the realm-android plugin to the top of the application level build.gradle file.
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apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'realm-android'

2. Creating a helper class
To Initialize Realm, you have to call Realm.init(context); just once per application.
To do this,
Step 1 : Add android:name=".MyApplication" attribute inside application tag in AndroidManifest.xml.
Step 2 : Create a new file MyApplication.java and paste below code in it.
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import android.app.Application;

import io.realm.Realm;
import io.realm.RealmConfiguration;

public class MyApplication extends Application {
  @Override
  public void onCreate() {
    super.onCreate();
    Realm.init(this);
    RealmConfiguration realmConfig = new RealmConfiguration.Builder()
            .name("mydb.realm")
            .schemaVersion(0)
            .build();
    Realm.setDefaultConfiguration(realmConfig);
  }
}

3. Create a structure of realm database
Create a new file RealmBean.java.
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import io.realm.RealmObject;
import io.realm.annotations.PrimaryKey;
import io.realm.annotations.Required;

public class RealmBean extends RealmObject {
    @Required
    public String object;

    @PrimaryKey
    public String sr;

    public String getObject() {
        return object;
    }

    public void setObject(String object) {
        this.object = object;
    }

    public String getSr() {
        return sr;
    }

    public void setSr(String sr) {
        this.sr = sr;
    }
}

In the above code, sr is ‘primary key’ and object is a ‘required field’.
You can add any number of fields you want.
4. Get Instance of Realm
You will need a realm instance to read/write in realm database.
To get a Realm instance, type
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Realm realm = Realm.getDefaultInstance();

write it in onCreate() method.
And do not forget to close the realm object when your work is done.
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realm.close();

write it in onDestroy() method.
5. Read data
Use below boilerplate code to read data from the realm database.
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realm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
    @Override
    public void execute(Realm realm) {
        try {
            RealmResults<RealmBean> results;
            results = realm.where(RealmBean.class).findAll();
            Log.e("results count : ",results.size()+"");

            for(int i = 0 ; i < results.size(); i++){
                Log.e("result "+i, results.get(i).getObject());
            }

        }catch (Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
});

6. Write data
Use below boilerplate code to write data to the realm database.

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realm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
    @Override
    public void execute(Realm realm) {
        try {
            Realm.init(getApplicationContext());
            RealmConfiguration config = new RealmConfiguration.Builder().deleteRealmIfMigrationNeeded().allowWritesOnUiThread(true).build();
            Realm.setDefaultConfiguration(config);

            RealmBean object = realm.createObject(RealmBean.class, "1"); // "1" is a string value for 'sr' field which is primary key 
            object.setObject(myjson); // myjson is a string value for 'object' field which is required
            
            realm.insert(object);
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
});

7. Delete data
Use below boilerplate code to delete data from the realm database.
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realm.executeTransaction(new Realm.Transaction() {
    @Override
    public void execute(Realm realm) {
        try {
            RealmResults<RealmBean> results;
            results = realm.where(RealmBean.class).findAll();

            for(int i = 0 ; i < results.size(); i++){
                JSONObject jsonObject1 = new JSONObject(results.get(i).getObject());
                if(jsonObject1.toString().equals(myjson)){ // myjson is a string value for 'object' field which I want to delete
                    results.get(i).deleteFromRealm();
                }
            }
        }catch (Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
});

Thanks for reading! Happy coding :)
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