I think what Dianne was trying to say is that if you, let's say, make a Tetris-like game and want to store a top 10 list, just make ten shared preferences, the data won't be large, they will be fast to access and there is no need for a database table for that. If you make a tower defense game and you want to keep high scores for every map and possibly for every game profile, database would be preferable.
Best regards, Filip Havlicek 2011/4/14 Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> > 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 > -- 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
