That's fair, I'm admittedly not sure of best practices with SharedPreferences w.r.t amount of data stored so I tend to be conservative. If you want to store lots of scores or scale to player info and stuff like that, a DB would be nice, but Dianne's much more in the loop than I on these calls.
Kris On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > Or just use SharedPreferences. There is probably no need to deal with > database just to store a handful of high scores. > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Kristopher Micinski < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Surely there is, >> >> Google "Android Content Provider" and read about that for a few hours, >> then you'll be set well off... >> >> Kris >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:37 PM, bob <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is there a sample of this in apidemos or somewhere else? >>> >>> On Apr 13, 2:06 pm, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Yes, use a database. >>> > >>> > Kris >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:59 PM, bob <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > > Does Android provide an easy way to store data like high scores on a >>> > > device? >>> > >>> > > Thanks. >>> > >>> > > -- >>> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> > > Groups "Android Developers" group. >>> > > To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> > > [email protected] >>> > > For more options, visit this group at >>> > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Android Developers" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
