Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

Key/value store

Akavache is another one of the available caching solutions in the open source scene. Technically, Akavache is a .NET Standard implementation for various caching stores. In the words of the author himself, it's an asynchronous persistent key-value store. Having been implemented on the .NET Standard framework, it can be utilized on both Xamarin and .Net Core applications.

In Akavache, cache stores are implemented as blob storage on various mediums, such as in-memory, local machine, or user account. While these stores do not refer to a specific system location across platforms, each has a respective translation, depending on the target platform. For instance, the user account and secure stores refer to shared preferences on iOS, ...