SweetPreferences

Add syntactic sugar to your Android Preferences.

Installation

In your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        ...
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

In your app build.gradle, add the dependency:

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.liip:SweetPreferences:1.0.3'
}

Usage

// Define a class that will hold the preferences
class UserPreferences(sweetPreferences: SweetPreferences) {
    // Default key is "counter"
    // Default value is "0"
    var counter: Int by sweetPreferences.delegate(0)
    
    // Key is hardcoded to "usernameKey"
    // Default value is null
    var username: String? by sweetPreferences.delegate(null, "usernameKey") 
}

// Obtain a SweetPreferences instance with default SharedPreferences
val sweetPreferences = SweetPreferences.Builder().withDefaultSharedPreferences(context).build()

// Build a UserPreferences instance
val preferences = UserPreferences(sweetPreferences)

// Use the preferences in a type-safe manner
preferences.username = "John Doe"
preferences.counter = 34

Custom SharedPreference

If you have a custom SharedPreference instance, you can pass it to the SweetPreferences builder:

val customPreference = ... // Obtain custom SharedPreferences
val sweetPreferences = SweetPreferences.Builder().with(customPreference).build()

Advanced methods

Other than accessing your preferences as Kotlin properties, you can also do the same as with a regular SharedPreferences or SharedPreferences.Editor object.

sweetPreferences.set("key", 1337)
sweetPreferences.remove("key")
sweetPreferences.contains("key")
sweetPreferences.get("key", 0)
sweetPreferences.clear() // Clear all preferences

Demo app

You can check the demo Android application to see it in action.

Blogpost

Read the accompanying blogpost on liip.ch.