Busy Java Developer's Guide to Android: Persistence

"First there was iPod. Then iPhone. Then iPad. And with each new release, the mobile device market grew hotter and hotter. Now, as Google's entry into this race, the Android system, begins to hit its stride as a competitor platform to the iOS, as a Java developer you're intrigued-it's Java (well, assuming you ask anybody except Oracle), and it's a mobile device, and it's open source, and.. What's not to love? "Android gives us a variety of ways to persist data local to the device: out of the box, we can use SQLite databases and regular files, but thanks to Java's rich ecosystem of third-party libraries, that's not the end of the story.

In this presentation, we'll go over several of them, including filesystem approaches, SQLite, object databases, and more.

Attendees should have written a basic "Hello World" app in Android before now.

About Ted Neward

Ted Neward is an Architectural Consultant with Neudesic, LLC as well as the Principal with Neward & Associates. He speaks on the conference circuit discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability, programming languages, and virtual machine technologies. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently- released "Professional F#" and widely-acclaimed "Effective Enterprise Java". He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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