Data Storage Extension

[Kracker]

I'm designing an app for Windows using MMF2 Dev. What would be the best data extension to store data but same data extension has to be able to be used when I dev the Android counterpart. The data will mainly be stuff like name, address, phone numbers, dates, and basic description of entry.

It will be where user will enter data on PC or droid. App will save data as a file. This file will be able to be read or modified by either PC app or Droid. I know how to do this easily on Windows but am unfamiliar with data/file handling on Droid.

[happygreenfrog]

The INI object basically works with every runtime, including Android, Flash, and (I think, I'm not sure as I don't have it) iOS. It should work fine, as long as you don't mind users being able to manually modify the INI file to change those things in the Windows version. If you aren't, then you will have to make a separate save system for the non-Windows version.

[Kracker]

Does INI++ work with Droid? Main reason is would like to add option of encrypting data if users want to.

[happygreenfrog]

Does INI++ work with Droid? Main reason is would like to add option of encrypting data if users want to.

Unfortunately, it isn't supported by the Android runtime. Even then, from the sounds of things, INI++'s encryption algorithm isn't anywhere near the best, so it wouldn't be as secure as you might expect. There might be an encryption object available for Android, though. I don't remember there being one, but there still might be one.

[Kracker]

Looks like I'll go with INI as it's supported by both Android and iOS. I thought about XML but so far it seems that neither the Android export module or iOS module support XML. Hopefully soon there will be an encryption extension for Android and iOS.

[Jahkri]

As a workaround you could use the AESFusion-Object to encrypt your Data inside the Ini-File. (The AESFusion-Object is listed in my Android-Objects).

With kind regards,
jahkri

[Kracker]

Would you happen to know if AESFusion is compatible with iOS as well?

[Jahkri]

Hi Kracker,

i have to admit that i didn' t even use the AES-Fusion on Android so far. I was just aware that it showed up in the Object-List (if the Export-Setting is set to "Android/OUYA", so it should be compatible with the Android-Runtime. I don' t have the iOS-Exporter (yet). So i can not help You with that Question. Also, the AES-Fusion-Object does not support the Encryption of Files directly, you have to encrypt the "Data" inside the Ini-File with it.
Perhaps somebody with the iOS-Exporter could tell You if AES-Fusion is available for it.

With kind regards,
jahkri

[Kracker]

Thanks for the reply. I'm aware that the AES object doesn't encrypt the file itself. I've created some time ago a simple encryption program using the AES object. It's available for download on my website (see signature). It's called Simple Text Encryptor.

[Konidias]

You could also use the array object... it has a simple compression that would make it impossible to read for normal users... Obviously it can be uncompressed but people would have to go out of their way to do that.