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Exploring Data Store — A New Way of Storing Data in Android.

Learn how to use DataStore instead of SharedPreferences in Android.

]Jetpack DataStore is a data storage solution that allows you to store key-value pairs or typed objects with protocol buffers.

DataStore uses Kotlin coroutines and Flow to store data asynchronously, consistently, and transactionally.

We hope that you have sufficient knowledge regarding when, why, and how to store data in Android applications using SharedPreferences and Room Database.In this blog post, we will cover DataStore, and its two types (Preferences DataStore, Proto DataStore).

The complete class details for creating the proto-type database instance and reading/writing data are available on Github.For detailed implementation, visit our blog.

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