[SailfishDevel] How to handle app settings?

[Bob Jelica]

See my previous mail. I use that in QML all the time.

I guess it’s up to you, as an app developer, to decide what fits your app. In spirit with agile software development, I start of with the easies possible solution, with as little friction as possible and take it from there.
The QSettings (with QML wrapper) has served me well, and I could focus my time on other parts of the app instead :)

//bob

On 29 dec 2013, at 10:08, Franck Routier (perso) <alci at mecadu.org> wrote:

> Le 28/12/2013 19:06, Artem Marchenko a écrit :
> 
>> If you want something QML that works, I use this pure QML LocalStorage
>> approach for the last couple of years fine
>> - https://github.com/amarchen/Wikipedia/blob/master/src/qml/components/DbDictionary.qml
> 
> I found inbetween that this is the approach promoted (for now) by Ubuntu
> Touch as well.
>> 
>> Nowadays I would have started with wrapping QSettings though (and pull
>> requests to Wikipedia for changing LocalStorage use into QSettings
>> wrapper are welcome :))
>> 
> So as I understand it, QSettings might be better, but is not yet really
> usable from QML out of the box (needs a wrapper of some sort, some being
> developped by Nokia for example).
> 
> But, what makes QSettings better thant LocalStorage ? Ans what makes
> LocalStorage better than QSettings ?
> 
> here are my first bets:
> 
> LocalStorage:
> (+) available in qml out of the box, more standard (HTML5 ??), more
> powerful (sql)
> (-) not directly human readable / editable, security concerns (all
> tables available to all qml apps ??)
> 
> QSettings:
> (+) simple text files (?)
> (-) not directly usable from qml
> 
> there must be some other points...
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Franck
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