Android Room Persistence library and Kotlin

Question

I am trying to write a simple app using Kotlin and Room Persistence Library. I followed the tutorial in the Android Persistence codelab.

Here is my AppDatabase class in Kotlin:

@Database(entities = arrayOf(User::class), version = 1)
abstract class AppDatabase : RoomDatabase() {
    abstract fun userModel(): UserDao

    companion object {
        private var INSTANCE: AppDatabase? = null
        @JvmStatic fun getInMemoryDatabase(context: Context): AppDatabase {
            if (INSTANCE == null) {
                INSTANCE = Room.inMemoryDatabaseBuilder(context.applicationContext, AppDatabase::class.java).allowMainThreadQueries().build()
            }
            return INSTANCE!!
        }

        @JvmStatic fun destroyInstance() {
            INSTANCE = null
        }
    }
}

But when I tried to run the app, it crashes immediately. Here is the crash log:

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: cannot find implementation for com.ttp.kotlin.kotlinsample.room.AppDatabase. AppDatabase_Impl does not exist
    at android.arch.persistence.room.Room.getGeneratedImplementation(Room.java:90)
    at android.arch.persistence.room.RoomDatabase$Builder.build(RoomDatabase.java:340)
    at com.ttp.kotlin.kotlinsample.room.AppDatabase$Companion.getInMemoryDatabase(AppDatabase.kt:19)
    at com.ttp.kotlin.kotlinsample.MainKotlinActivity.onCreate(MainKotlinActivity.kt:28)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6272)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1108)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2387)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2494) 
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$900(ActivityThread.java:157) 
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1356)

It looks like the class AppDatabase_Impl wasn't autogenerated. I checked the original java app downloaded from codelab and found that AppDatabase_Impl was autogenerated.

Kotlin version: 1.1.2-3
Room version: 1.0.0-alpha1

Is there anyone experienced with this?

Edit: Using kapt solves my problem. In my case, I have to replace annotationProcessor with kapt.

user_540189 · Answer

Try out these steps

Step 1. Set the room_version in the project.gradle file

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.1.51'
    ext.room_version = '1.0.0-alpha9-1'
...

Step 2. Apply the kotlin-kapt plugin in the app.gradle file, and this solved my issue.

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 26
    buildToolsVersion "26.0.1"
...

Step 3. Add the kapt dependency in the app.gradle file

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
    implementation "android.arch.persistence.room:runtime:$room_version"
    annotationProcessor "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:$room_version"
    kapt "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:$room_version"
...
}

user_5179140 · Answer

I don't know if there is a necessity to my answer I know that some of the above answers already included this to their answers but they added other things

ONLY ADD apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

Android Room Persistence library and Kotlin

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