public class UserProfileViewModel extends ViewModel {
    private String userId;
    private User user;

    public void init(String userId) {
        this.userId = userId;
    }
    public User getUser() {
        return user;
    }
}

public class UserProfileFragment extends LifecycleFragment {
    private static final String UID_KEY = "uid";
    private UserProfileViewModel viewModel;

    @Override
    public void onActivityCreated(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
        String userId = getArguments().getString(UID_KEY);
        viewModel = ViewModelProviders.of(this).get(UserProfileViewModel.class);
        viewModel.init(userId);
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater,
                @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        return inflater.inflate(R.layout.user_profile, container, false);
    }
}

public class UserProfileViewModel extends ViewModel {
    ...
    private LiveData<User> user;
    public LiveData<User> getUser() {
        return user;
    }
}

@Override
public void onActivityCreated(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
    viewModel.getUser().observe(this, user -> {
      // update UI
    });
}

public interface Webservice {
    /**
     * @GET declares an HTTP GET request
     * @Path("user") annotation on the userId parameter marks it as a
     * replacement for the {user} placeholder in the @GET path
     */
    @GET("/users/{user}")
    Call<User> getUser(@Path("user") String userId);
}

public class UserRepository {
    private Webservice webservice;
    // ...
    public LiveData<User> getUser(int userId) {
        // This is not an optimal implementation, we'll fix it below
        final MutableLiveData<User> data = new MutableLiveData<>();
        webservice.getUser(userId).enqueue(new Callback<User>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(Call<User> call, Response<User> response) {
                // error case is left out for brevity
                data.setValue(response.body());
            }
        });
        return data;
    }
}

public class UserProfileViewModel extends ViewModel {
    private LiveData<User> user;
    private UserRepository userRepo;

    @Inject // UserRepository parameter is provided by Dagger 2
    public UserProfileViewModel(UserRepository userRepo) {
        this.userRepo = userRepo;
    }

    public void init(String userId) {
        if (this.user != null) {
            // ViewModel is created per Fragment so
            // we know the userId won't change
            return;
        }
        user = userRepo.getUser(userId);
    }
    public LiveData<User> getUser() {
        return this.user;
    }
}

@Singleton  // informs Dagger that this class should be constructed once
public class UserRepository {
    private Webservice webservice;
    // simple in memory cache, details omitted for brevity
    private UserCache userCache;
    public LiveData<User> getUser(String userId) {
        LiveData<User> cached = userCache.get(userId);
        if (cached != null) {
            return cached;
        }

        final MutableLiveData<User> data = new MutableLiveData<>();
        userCache.put(userId, data);
        // this is still suboptimal but better than before.
        // a complete implementation must also handle the error cases.
        webservice.getUser(userId).enqueue(new Callback<User>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(Call<User> call, Response<User> response) {
                data.setValue(response.body());
            }
        });
        return data;
    }
}

@Entity
class User {
  @PrimaryKey
  private int id;
  private String name;
  private String lastName;
  // getters and setters for fields
}

@Database(entities = {User.class}, version = 1)
public abstract class MyDatabase extends RoomDatabase {
}

@Dao
public interface UserDao {
    @Insert(onConflict = REPLACE)
    void save(User user);
    @Query("SELECT * FROM user WHERE id = :userId")
    LiveData<User> load(String userId);
}

@Database(entities = {User.class}, version = 1)
public abstract class MyDatabase extends RoomDatabase {
    public abstract UserDao userDao();
}

@Singleton
public class UserRepository {
    private final Webservice webservice;
    private final UserDao userDao;
    private final Executor executor;

    @Inject
    public UserRepository(Webservice webservice, UserDao userDao, Executor executor) {
        this.webservice = webservice;
        this.userDao = userDao;
        this.executor = executor;
    }

    public LiveData<User> getUser(String userId) {
        refreshUser(userId);
        // return a LiveData directly from the database.
        return userDao.load(userId);
    }

    private void refreshUser(final String userId) {
        executor.execute(() -> {
            // running in a background thread
            // check if user was fetched recently
            boolean userExists = userDao.hasUser(FRESH_TIMEOUT);
            if (!userExists) {
                // refresh the data
                Response response = webservice.getUser(userId).execute();
                // TODO check for error etc.
                // Update the database.The LiveData will automatically refresh so
                // we don't need to do anything else here besides updating the database
                userDao.save(response.body());
            }
        });
    }
}