{"id":11438,"date":"2019-02-21T11:10:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=11438"},"modified":"2019-02-21T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:10:55","slug":"aa4c6gf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aa4c6gf\/","title":{"rendered":"Persisting Settings and Preferences in Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An essential part of any mobile application is the ability to persist data. Sometimes that is a large amount of data that requires a database, but often it is smaller pieces of data such as settings and preferences that need to be persisted between application launches. This is where <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/\">Xamarin.Essentials<\/a> can help out with its wide range of cross-platform APIs for mobile apps. Specifically, the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/essentials\/preferences\">Preferences<\/a> API enables you to store application preferences in a key\/value store. Let\u2019s take look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essential part of any mobile application is the ability to persist data. Sometimes that is a large amount of data that requires a database, but often it is smaller pieces of data such as settings and preferences that need to be persisted between application launches. This is where Xamarin.Essentials can help out with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus","category-vs4mac"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>An essential part of any mobile application is the ability to persist data. Sometimes that is a large amount of data that requires a database, but often it is smaller pieces of data such as settings and preferences that need to be persisted between application launches. This is where Xamarin.Essentials can help out with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}