On initial app launch, data does not load to UI when it is received

[timmiller17]

Something is awry with how the LiveData is set up. The goal was for any updates to the database to then be pushed to the UI; however, this isn't working as hoped. We'll need to figure out the problem or go in a different direction (re-architect how the UI is prompted to update). If the issue with the existing LiveData cannot be resolved, then perhaps we implement a repository class that explicitly manages this for us.

[timmiller17]

It may be true that even subsequent launches of the app are only getting the data from the previous API call that was previously written to the database.

[timmiller17]

Perhaps a way to debug this is to (temporarily) display a timestamp for when the data was fetched. We may have to add that to the database model if that's not something we already have in place.

[rorpage]

I actually think a "Last updated" datetime would be pretty sweet to show anyways FWIW