Jetpack Datastore in Android

Jetpack DataStore is a data storage solution that allows you to store key-value pairs or typed objects with protocol buffers. It’s based on Kotlin coroutines and Flow to store asynchronousy, consistenly (thread-safe and non-blocking).

DataStore provides two different implementations: Preferences DataStore and Proto DataStore.

• Preferences DataStore stores and accesses data using keys. This implementation does not require a predefined schema, and it does not provide type safety.

• Proto DataStore stores data as instances of a custom data type. This implementation requires you to define a schema using protocol buffers, but it provides type safety.

• type safety
• preferencesdatastore vs protodatastore
• compare datstore vs sharepreferences