Bulldog

Please check https://sserra.gitbook.io/bulldog/ for full documentation.

Medium https://medium.com/@Sserra90/announcing-bulldog-never-use-sharedpreferences-anymore-92cd32249314

Why Bulldog?

• Avoid boilerplate, error prone code, improve productivity.
• Write less code, avoid bugs.
• Easily organize your preferences.

Motivation

Android library to simplify reading and writing to SharedPreferences, never write code like this anymore prefs.edit().putString("someKey","someString").apply()

How to use it

Add dependencies to build.gradle

 kapt "com.github.Sserra90.bulldog:bulldog-processor:$bulldog"
 implementation "com.github.Sserra90.bulldog:bulldog-runtime:$bulldog"

Create a spec with wanted properties and default values like the this:

@Bulldog(name = "UserSettings")
object UserModel {
    const val id: Int = 20 // Default value
    const val email: String = "[email protected]"
    const val likes: Long = 20L
    const val isPremium: Boolean = false
    const val minutesLeft: Float = 24.5F
}

Init Bulldog context in your application class.

bullDogCtx = applicationContext

Bulldog will generate a class from this specification with the name UserSettings. Use it like a normal object to access values, under the hood it uses Kotlin delegated properties to read and writes values to SharedPreferences.

UserSettings().apply {
    id = 2
    email = "[email protected]"
}
Log.d("PREFS", UserSettings().id)
Log.d("PREFS", UserSettings().toString())

If no name is specified in @Bulldog annotation, the generated class will have the name of the spec object prefixed with Bulldog.

Read values

Just access object property like a normal object

Log.d("UserId", UserSettings().id)

Write values

UserSettings().apply{
    id = 4
    Log.d("UserId", id)
}

Clear values

Bulldog generates a clear method for each entry

UserSettings().apply{
    clearId()
    Log.d("UserId", id) // Will return the default value
}

Print information

Bulldog also generates a toString() human readable implementation

Log.d("PREFS", UserSettings().toString())
// Ouput
// UserSettings  id=20, [email protected], likes=20, isPremium=false minutesLeft=24.

Enum support

Bulldog supports Enum type using the @Enum annotation.

@Bulldog(name = "UserSettings")
object UserModel {
    @Enum(value = Roles.user)
    val role: Roles = Roles.USER
}

enum class Roles{
  ADMIN, USER;
  
  companion object {
        const val user = "USER"
        const val admin = "ADMIN"
    }
}

You just need annotate the field the enum field and pass a default value.