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Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

You're reading from  Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235578
Pages 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Madona S. Wambua Madona S. Wambua
Profile icon Madona S. Wambua

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Modern Android Development Skills 2. Chapter 2: Creating Screens Using a Declarative UI and Exploring Compose Principles 3. Chapter 3: Handling the UI State in Jetpack Compose and Using Hilt 4. Chapter 4: Navigation in Modern Android Development 5. Chapter 5: Using DataStore to Store Data and Testing 6. Chapter 6: Using the Room Database and Testing 7. Chapter 7: Getting Started with WorkManager 8. Chapter 8: Getting Started with Paging 9. Chapter 9: Building for Large Screens 10. Chapter 10: Implementing Your First Wear OS Using Jetpack Compose 11. Chapter 11: GUI Alerts – What’s New in Menus, Dialog, Toast, Snackbars, and More in Modern Android Development 12. Chapter 12: Android Studio Tips and Tricks to Help You during Development 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Android Proto DataStore versus DataStore

Figure 5.2 shows the differences between PreferencesDataStore, SharedPreferences, and ProtoDataStore. In this recipe, we will explore how we can use Proto DataStore. The Proto DataStore implementation uses DataStore and Protocol Buffers to persist typed objects to the disk.

Proto DataStore is similar to Preferences DataStore, but unlike Preferences DataStore, Proto does not use key-value pairs and just returns the generated object in the flow. The file types and structure of the data depend on the schema of the .protoc files.

Getting ready

We will use our already created project to show how you can use Proto DataStore in Android. We will also use already created classes and just give the functions different names.

How to do it…

  1. We will need to start by setting up the required dependencies, so let’s go ahead and add the following to our Gradle app-level file:
    implementation "androidx.DataStore:DataStore...
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