An asynchronous, persistent key-value store created for writing desktop and mobile applications, based on SQLite3. Akavache is great for both storing important data as well as cached local data that expires. Downloading and storing remote data from the internet while still keeping the UI responsive is a task that nearly every modern application needs to do. However, many applications that don't take the consideration of caching into the design from the start often end up with inconsistent, duplicated code for caching different types of objects. Akavache is a library that makes common app patterns easy, and unifies caching of different object types (i.e. HTTP responses vs. JSON objects vs. images). It's built on a core key-value byte array store (conceptually similar to a Dictionary<string, byte[]>), and on top of that store, extensions are added to support Arbitrary objects via JSON.NET.
Features
- Fetching and loading Images and URLs from the Internet
- Storing and automatically encrypting User Credentials
- Arbitrary objects via JSON.NET
- Interacting with Akavache is primarily done through an object called BlobCache
- The most straightforward way to use Akavache is via the object extensions
- When a key is not present in the cache, GetObject throws a KeyNotFoundException
- Critical to the integrity of your Akavache cache is the BlobCache.Shutdown() method