Link to dangers of shared prefs

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Link to dangers of shared prefs

Opened this issue 6 years ago · 3 comments

kurtisnelson commented 6 years ago

Might be worthwhile explaining or pointing to an explanation of why not use SharedPrefs

Originally posted by @jbarr21 in #25 (comment)

Answer 1 · 2019-07-03T17:59:42.000Z

Also compare to room and SQL.

Answer 2 · 2020-01-07T02:54:13.000Z

@kurtisnelson
Will this make this project obsolete? If not why?

Answer 3 · 2020-01-07T10:21:32.000Z

The AndroidX shared preferences replacement will likely be backed by SQLite. This keeps the library easy to use for new developers but has a significant performance hit both on memory and CPU. SimpleStore uses the fundamental JVM file APIs and has zero overhead until opened.