Sharing my preference for DataStore

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DataStore claims to replace SharedPreferences and actually demonstrates that with concrete code: it uses Kotlin coroutines and Flow, provides Preferences (key‑value) and Proto (protocol buffers) implementations, and shows reads as Flows and writes as suspend atomic edits that guarantee on‑disk consistency. The talk shows migration code (shared‑prefs → preferences is trivial, → proto requires custom mapping and a done flag), error handling via IOException, and that proto gives compile‑time type safety.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:32get the share preferences from the context
3. 13:05implement a data migration
4. 17:25use a user preference serializer
5. 18:03set default values for our user preferences

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