Android Tutorial #8: DataStore — Replace SharedPreferences
SharedPreferences has been the go-to way to store simple data on Android for over a decade. It works. But it has problems. It runs on the main thread and can cause jank. It has no type safety — you request a string and get a crash if the key holds an integer. It has no way to observe changes reactively. And it does not handle errors — a corrupted file means lost data with no recovery. ...