Any help with the paging library would be very appreciated! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59706286/android-using-pagedlist-boundarycallback-does-not-retrieve-any-item

Any chance you could also post your boundary callback implementation?

sure

Room inserts aren't synchronous btw, I would probably make sure that items are actually getting inserted or the onZeroItems callback isn't getting hit in the boundarycallback

updated

Talked offline, but in case anyone else is curious the resolution was the result of LivePagedListBuilder being wrapped in a LivedData {} builder which didn't emit