Is FlatBuffers faster than SharedPreferences

[minh duc pham]

Hi all,

Like the subject, I wonder if FlatBuffers is faster than SharedPreferences. My mobile application uses about 3000 key-value sets using SharedPreferences, and the value is just the primitive type, any other object types is not much (and I believe FlatBuffers can handle this perfectly). So I wanna ask "is it worth moving from SharedPreferences to FlatBuffers?"

Thank you very much for any your thoughts

MinhPham

[Maxim Zaks]

I am not sure what to tell you about storing 3000 key value sets in SharedPreferences :)

But generally as far as I see SharedPreferences are stored as XML file.

Reading this amount of data from FlatBuffers will be definitely faster. Specially if you need only a fraction of 3000 values.

Writing should be more performant as well, but I suggest you profile/measure it.

[minh duc pham]

Thank you very much Maxim, I'll consider it :).