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or-dvir / EasySettings

A library for easily creating and adding settings (AKA preferences) to your android app
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Store data in sqlite #7

Closed psohm closed 5 years ago

psohm commented 5 years ago

It would be useful to store data in a sqlite database Is it possible to integrate external saving ?

or-dvir commented 5 years ago

why would it be useful? this doesnt make any sense. databases are meant to hold a large and complex amount of data where settings are just basic types (numbers and strings). also accessing a database is a much more expensive operation than accessing SharedPreferences (and accessing that data could happen a lot during an apps' life cycle).

can you please explain why you would want to do this?

psohm commented 5 years ago

Sure I have an application which store config file for one company I'd like to configure now multiple company and also to sync it with a server

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why would it be useful? this doesnt make any sense. databases are meant to hold a large and complex amount of data where settings are just basic types (numbers and strings). also accessing a database is a much more expensive operation than accessing SharedPreferences (and accessing that data could happen a lot during an apps' life cycle).

can you please explain why you would want to do this?

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or-dvir commented 5 years ago

how big of a configuration file? if not too big, you can possibly convert it to json and then store that as a string. it sounds like the "regular" way of storing settings/preferences does not suit your needs, and this library is meant to be as close to the "regular" way as possible.

psohm commented 5 years ago

i think it is a good idea to store in a json file.

how would do you proceed, would you store in shared pref file and then migrate it in json ? or would you directly store in json with a lib ?

or-dvir commented 5 years ago

i meant store the json as string (which you can save to shared preferences), not a file. i dont know the specifics of your app requirements and how this configuration file is built, but maybe instead of in a file you can save those configurations as a json string and then save that string to shared preferences