DataStore is ideal for small, simple datasets and does not support partial updates or referential integrity. If you have a need for partial updates, referential integrity, or support for large/complex datasets, you should consider using Room instead of DataStore. While Proto DataStore requires you to learn a new serialization mechanism, we believe that the strongly typed schema advantage brought by Proto DataStore is worth it. They are faster, smaller, simpler, and less ambiguous than XML and other similar data formats. Using Protobufs allows persisting strongly typed data. Proto DataStore lets you define a schema using Protocol buffers.Preference DataStore, like SharedPreferences, has no way to define a schema or to ensure that keys are accessed with the correct type.While both Preferences DataStore and Proto DataStore allow saving data, they do this in different ways: In both implementations, DataStore saves the preferences in a file and performs all data operations on Dispatchers.IO unless specified otherwise.
** SharedPreferences throws parsing errors as runtime exceptions. The UI thread is blocked on pending fsync() calls scheduled by apply(), often becoming a source of ANRs. Pending fsync() calls are triggered every time any service starts or stops, and every time an activity starts or stops anywhere in your application.
Furthermore, apply() blocks the UI thread on fsync(). * SharedPreferences has a synchronous API that can appear safe to call on the UI thread, but which actually does disk I/O operations. Data is stored asynchronously, consistently, and transactionally, overcoming most of the drawbacks of SharedPreferences. Built on Kotlin coroutines and Flow, DataStore provides two different implementations: Proto DataStore, that lets you store typed objects (backed by protocol buffers) and Preferences DataStore, that stores key-value pairs. Welcome Jetpack DataStore, now in alpha - a new and improved data storage solution aimed at replacing SharedPreferences.
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Posted by Florina Muntenescu, Android Developer Advocate,
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