Realm Java 0.71

You asked for it. Now you got it!

Version 0.71.0 of Realm for Java fixes an important issue first reported on GitHub: Maven support.

We simplified the release structure, and now produce a single Jar file containing both the Realm runtime and the annotation processor.

This has a couple of positive effects:

• It’s now possible to use Realm with Eclipse ADT: simply put the Jar file in the libs folder and you’re done!
• We can now more easily distribute Realm in a Maven repository: we chose jcenter, since it is a superset of Maven Central and is the default repository in recent version of Android Studio.

This means that you can now simply add the dependency in build.gradle like this:

compile 'io.realm:realm-android:0.71.0'

It is now also possible to index String fields of your model classes. You can do this by simply adding the @Index annotation to your field. This will make inserts slower and realm files bigger, but it will speed-up queries using such fields.

Of course we also fixed several bugs and made other small improvements. For details please check out our changelog.

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Enjoy this release of Realm and please keep the feedback coming on the mailing list.

We appreciate your help in making Realm better. Cheers!