Room Dao LiveData as return type causing compile time error

Question

I am using Room and implemented Dao that returns LiveData. It was working fine with below dependency added.

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Answer 1

As Michael Vescovo pointed out, there are two possible ways of achieving async call:

@Dao
interface AccountDao{
    @Query("SELECT * FROM account_master")
    suspend fun getAllAccounts(): List
}

@Dao
interface AccountDao{
    @Query("SELECT * FROM account_master")
    fun getAllAccounts(): LiveData>
}

Which one you'll use depends on your use case. For example, I would use the first one if my DAO consumer (usually repository) will create LiveData for the model (in the case that I don't need to observe changes from local DB).

If I need to observe changes in local DB (for example, some other service can update DB in the meantime) I would use the second one.