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The Preferences API is designed to store strings, numbers, booleans, simple byte arrays, and the like. In this article, we will show you how to store objects using the Preferences API and provide a working library that takes care of the details for you. This is useful if your data is easily expressed as simple objects, rather than as separate values like strings and numbers.
We\'ll begin with a brief discussion about the API, including some simple examples of its use, then go into the details of how objects are stored using the API and lay out the code that takes care of this for us. We also demonstrate some examples of the API in action.
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