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In my applications, I usually have a loader that loads the data from sqlite and then passes it on to either the activity or fragment it is attached, from where it is set in the adapter of a absListView which then presents it to the user Since realm states that its objects shouldn't be shared across threads , how can this be achieved without making any db calls from the UI thread? (which would make the app feel sluggish as I hit the db a good amount) Also in the 3 examples - intro , gridView & migration , a number of times db operations are done in the UI thread. Isn't database operations in UI

I'm writing an app in Swift 2.2 targeting iOS 8 and using Realm. I allow the user to sort objects based on various optional properties using Results.sorted(_:ascending:) . This works very well for descending sorts but for ascending sorts, nil values are placed first which doesn't look right. Many database systems have a NULLS FIRST/LAST option and with CoreData, it looks like it's possible to subclass NSSortDescriptor . Is there any way to always put nil values last when sorting in Realm? Even if there's only a hacky strategy, that would be appreciated, too. Realm doesn't support custom

I've been upgrading a project to use Realm as the persistence store and I'm not able to find any documentation on how to use an array of strings in one of my models. The implementation of an Array for a RLMObject is to use an RLMArray where T inherits RLMObject I could make an object that inherits.. property inside which is string... but that seems like quite some overhead to replace an NSArray of strings. Does anyone know the recommended best practice to do this? As of Realm Cocoa 3.0 you can simply do RLMArray<RLMString> *array; and no longer need the wrapper object type. In older versions

I'm trying to run my current project in the new Xcode 9 beta, but when I do so it says Module compiled with Swift 3.1 cannot be imported in Swift 4.0 . How can I solve this problem? I'm not using cocoapods. Update : As of v2.10.1, released 2017-09-14, Realm's prebuilt binaries include frameworks built with Xcode 9 for Swift 3.2 and 4.0. It's no longer necessary to build them yourself. The information below remains relevant to anyone looking to use Realm with prerelease versions of Xcode in the future. If you're currently integrating Realm's prebuilt binaries, you'll need to switch to building

I have this code #if TARGET_OS_SIMULATOR let device = false let RealmDB = try! Realm(path: "/Users/Admin/Desktop/realm/Realm.realm") #else let device = true let RealmDB = try! Realm() #endif device bool works fine, yet RealmDB works only for else condition. TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR macro doesn't work in Swift. What you want to do is like the following, right? #if arch(i386) || arch(x86_64) let device = false let RealmDB = try! Realm(path: "/Users/Admin/Desktop/realm/Realm.realm") #else let device = true let RealmDB = try! Realm() #endif As of Xcode 9.3+ Swift now supports if #targetEnvironment

I need a list<Object> using Realm. I tried RealmList<RealmObject> but it doesn't work because RealmObject is abstract. Christian Melchior Christian from Realm here. You can only save objects that extend RealmObject inside a Realm. This is because Realm is not a schemaless database. We do require a schema and that schema is defined by your objects that extend RealmObject. We use RealmList because it abstracts away the communication with the underlying core database, but it implements the List interface. This means that public class Foo extends RealmObject { private List<Object> objects; // not