Chapter 4
JSON for On-Device Persistence
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.
JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. GSON is a Java library from one of Google Projects that uses JSON structure to serialize and deserialize Java objects to strings.
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