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JSON for On-Device Persistence

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A key aspect of mobile applications or games is the need for persistence on the device. Android provides a number of very good options for persistence, including relational storage. However, all the provided mechanisms that use the relational storage take a sizable amount of development time. This chapter provides a shortcut for a number of simple to medium persistence needs. The approach uses GSON/JSON technology to store object trees directly in non-SQL storage, such as the shared preferences and internal file storage means on the device.

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Komatineni, S., MacLean, D. (2013). JSON for On-Device Persistence. In: Expert Android. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4951-1_4

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