Announcing New Course: Android DataStore!

Announcing new Pro Course: Android DataStore!

Okay, admit it — who is still storing app data in SharedPreferences? 👋

It's okay — we've all done that. It's just so easy! But honestly, it's time to move your data persistence into the next generation with our new Android DataStore course!

Keep reading to hear more about it from course instructor Aldo Olivares:

Why should I take your Android DataStore course?

"This course will be helpful for developers that have created applications using the SharedPreferences API and who want to migrate to the new Jetpack DataStore API to take advantage of all its features."

What surprised you about when making the course?

"What surprised me is how easy it is to migrate an app to use DataStore. Sometimes people believe that migrating an app to a new technology will take countless hours of effort.

This time, Google has made it really easy for us! The DataStore API has an easy-to-use syntax that will feel very familiar to developers that have already used SharedPreferences."

Can you please share a cool DataStore tip with us?

"If you want to migrate previously saved data from SharedPreferences to DataStore, you only need a few lines of code:

Here you are using the built-in SharedPreferencesMigration() class to create a migration. This will move all the data from your SharedPreferences to the DataStore. Easy, right?"

Is there anything else we should know about your Android DataStore course?

"While using Shared Preferences might be a little bit easier, since it's an API that's been around for a very long time, Datastore offers many advantages, including a fully asynchronous API, main thread safety, and type safety.

So you should definitely consider learning it for your future projects, since it will greatly improve the quality of your code!"

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Aldo's Android DataStore course is available for Pro subscribers now!

— Ray