SharedPreferences or SQlite

Question

I\'m developing an Android AppWidget which displays a short text inputted from the configuration activity. I\'m a bit confused when it\'s comes to storing the data, should I

Answer 1

It totally depend on your data, which you want to store.

sharedpreferences

• Small data
• Unstructured
• Like login info, user preffs, etc

Sqlite

• large data
• Structured
• Organized

Answer 2

For a single string SharedPrefs will be much simpler.

Answer 3

Depends on the data you're planning to store. If it's quite simple, sharedPreferences would do the job. If it's more complicated use DB.

Answer 4

It depends on the data you want to store. With sharedPreferences you can store name - value data, with sqlite you have all the power of a relational database.

I'd say it depends on the amount of data and on the kind of query you need to perform on that.