Safely Migrating to DataStore in Production

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How to migrate Android apps from SharedPreferences to Jetpack Preference DataStore: create a singleton DataStore (Hilt recommended), provide a repository interface, and convert consumers to Kotlin Flow or offer Java-compatible wrappers (Rx/blocking). Perform key-by-key migrations using the SharedPreferences migration with a specific key set, test real upgrade paths and duplicate-key handling, and avoid large one-shot releases because reverting a migration can silently drop preferences written after migration.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:21DataStore overview
3. 3:55Migration motivation
4. 8:32SharedPreferences vs DataStore
5. 9:16Migration steps
6. 15:19Java calls handling
7. 20:15Testing before and after
8. 25:31Summary

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