Reading list

[Raghuvorkady]

• 1. https://pub.dev/packages/fluttertoast
• 2. https://medium.com/flutter-community/cache-manager-with-flutter-5a5db0d3a3e6
• 3. https://alphacode.medium.com/caching-user-data-like-a-pro-in-flutter-18ed0127c923
• 4. https://pub.dev/packages/hive
• 5. https://pub.dev/packages/objectbox
• 6. https://medium.com/flutter-community/using-hive-instead-of-sharedpreferences-for-storing-preferences-2d98c9db930f
• 7. https://pusher.com/tutorials/local-data-flutter/
• 8. https://blog.codemagic.io/choosing-the-right-database-for-your-flutter-app/
• 9. https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-handle-data-locally-in-flutter-79506abc07c9
• 10. https://docs.flutter.dev/cookbook/persistence
• 11. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66081455/flutter-how-to-save-data-locally
• 12. https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-4-ways-to-store-data-locally-in-your-flutter-app-that-youre-going-to-need-abdafa991ae3
• 13. https://www.kindacode.com/article/ways-to-store-data-offline-in-flutter/
• 14. https://blog.logrocket.com/choosing-right-database-flutter-application/

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About local storage:

Object box ❌ vs Hive ✅

As you can see, in the below example
The problem with object_box is, the put method here returns a unique id for every unique object that is being stored.
In order to retrieve the data stored, we need to use the same id, which is not a feasible solution in our use case i.e., using it instead of shared_preferences

//object_box implementation
final id = box.put(person);  // Create

person = box.get(id)!;       // Read

Therefore, in this use case using Hive will be a better choice, because it's not just similar to shared_pref but also even faster (shared_pref is faster in reads)

Reference:

1. https://medium.com/flutter-community/using-hive-instead-of-sharedpreferences-for-storing-preferences-2d98c9db930f
2. https://pub.dev/packages/hive
3. https://github.com/hivedb/hive_benchmark

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mixin vs constants?

if we are using mixins then

mixin Constants on FirebaseService {
  String USERS = "users";
  String ACCOUNTS = "accounts";
  String BANK_AC1_DOC = "bankAc1Doc";
  String TAGS = "tags";
  String TAG_DOC = "tagDoc";
  String TRANSACTIONS = "transactions";
}

But as you can see, these are mutable fields, whereas the ones declared in constants/firebase.dart are the const fields