Data Store
- Datastore is a component of data storage solution from the android jetpack.
- It allows us to store the
key/valuepairs like shared preferences or typed objects with protocol buffers. - Data store uses kotlin, coroutines, and flow to store data asynchronously with consistency and transaction support
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Shared Preferencesaresynchronousand not main thread-safe, But data store is safe to use in the main thread since it usesDispatchers.IOunder the hood. -
Shared Preferencesare not safe from runtime exceptions, But theData-Storeis safe from runtime exceptions - There is an easy way to migrate from
Shared Preferences
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- Here we have a fragment where we are storing a value entered in edit-text, on click of save button, We have used global scope here
- We are displaying the data from the
dataManagerhelper class that gets the data from the data store via a flow and displays the data in the text view - View <->ManagerClass
