Chapter 27: Android Databases
If we are going to make apps that offer our users significant features, then we are almost certainly going to need a way to manage, store, and filter significant amounts of data.
It is possible to store very large amounts of data efficiently with JSON, but when we need to use that data selectively rather than simply restricting ourselves to the options of "save everything" and "load everything," we need to think about what other options are available.
A good computer science course would probably teach you about the algorithms necessary to handle sorting and filtering our data, but the effort involved would be quite extensive, and what are the chances of us coming up with a solution that is as good as something made by the people who gave us the Android API?
As is so often the case, it makes the most sense to use the solutions provided in the Android API. As we have seen, the JSON and SharedPreferences classes have their place...
