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Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development

You're reading from   Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development Master the skills required to develop cross-platform applications from drawing board to app store(s) using Xamarin

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Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120129
Length 1049 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chapter 4. Local Data Management

In this chapter, you will find patterns and techniques to efficiently use, manage, and roam data on mobile devices. It also investigates SQLite database creation and usage strategies. The chapter is divided into the following sections:

  • Data in mobile applications
  • Application data
  • Local filesystem
  • Data roaming
  • SQLite
  • Patterns and best practices
  • Backup/roaming

Data in mobile applications

The term "data" can refer to different types of information and storage locations in mobile app development. It can be used to describe a volatile state that is created and destroyed each time a view in the application is used, or it might refer to persisted settings and configuration information that are required to run the application, or even the data stored in the local filesystem. Each type of data is created and persisted or destroyed throughout the lifecycle of the application or a view in the application. We can talk about four distinct groups for this discussion...

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