Hello everyone, I was working on some optimizations and found that data store is taking significant ...

# android

[Akhil Jain]

Hello everyone,
I was working on some optimizations and found that data store is taking significant time in storing/removing values.
So why dataStore is slower than shared preference. ?

[marlonlom]

Does that happen when using flow for the storing/removing values?

[Akhil Jain]

dataStoreManager.getDataStore(prefName, prefAlreadyExists).edit {
    it.remove(preferencesKey<T>(prefKey))
}
suspend fun <T> DataStore<Preferences>.storeValue(key: Preferences.Key<T>, value: T) {
    this.edit {
        it[key] = value
    }
}

We are using above code for storing/removing

[marlonlom]

ah, where are you using the datastore manager? in the function that uses the suspend function for storing, try to execute it inside a scope block, for example:

Viewmodel:

viewModelScope.launch { datastoreManager.storeValue(...) }

Repository:

/* inside a suspend function or flow { ... } */

datastoreManager.storeValue(...)