In Early September 2020 Google released the first Alpha of a new Jetpack library named DataStore. DataStore is a replacement for SharedPreferences. While there are some similarities to SharedPreferences, DataStore offers far greater flexibility. In this series of posts we’ll take a detailed look at this new library.
Month: September 2020
DataStore: Wire
In Early September 2020 Google released the first Alpha of a new Jetpack library named DataStore. DataStore is a replacement for SharedPreferences. While there are some similarities to SharedPreferences, DataStore offers far greater flexibility. In this series of posts we’ll take a detailed look at this new library.
DataStore: Basics
In Early September 2020 Google released the first Alpha of a new Jetpack library named DataStore. DataStore is a replacement for SharedPreferences. While there are some similarities to SharedPreferences, DataStore offers far greater flexibility. In this series of posts we’ll take a detailed look at this new library.
WindowInsetsCompat
In March I wrote about some extremely nice updates to WindowInsets that were introduced in the Android 11 developer preview. I mentioned in that article that a Jetpack version would be coming for backwards compatibility. This arrived in androidx.core 1.5.0-alpha02. In this article we’ll look at how to use these new Jetpack API.