Notes

Local vs Remote storage?

Local

✅ Fastest access to data

✅ Offline first

❌ Delete the app, lose the data

Remote

✅ Sync data across devices

✅ Share data between users

→ May or may not support offline storage

Writing a social media app? Use a remote backend such as Firebase

Writing a habit tracker without social features? Use a local database. But which one?

Local persistent storage

This page contains a list of all the popular options:

https://fluttergems.dev/persistent-storage/

What do we need?

• a key-value store?
• a NoSQL database?
• a SQL-based database?
• does it need to be fast or not?
• does it need to support data encryption?

For our use case, using a key-value store is more than enough.

Out of all the key-value stores that are available, Hive has the best performance and a simple and intuitive API.