Cross-platform way of storing configuration files?

Timmeey86 · April 12, 2019, 7:17pm

Is there any cross-platform way of storing configuration settings?

I would be very flexible concerning the format (XML, YML, JSON, CSV, TXT, SQLITE, whatever).

The main question is: Is there a way which supports all of the following platforms or do I need to store them in a platform-agnostic way, e.g. %APPDATA% on Windows, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux etc?

Desktop (Windows, Linux and Mac)
Mobile (iOS, Android, UWP)

reiti.net · April 12, 2019, 7:55pm

You can use IsolatedStorage - it will care for the storing in user space for example

FrancescoBonizzi · April 17, 2019, 8:20am

Hi! I faced the same problem and I resolved it by abstracting a “SettingsRepository”: example here from my repository, and by implementing it differently for each platform:

Windows Desktop with a simple file and File.WriteAllText and so on API
[UWP] (https://github.com/FrancescoBonizzi/FbonizziMonoGame/blob/master/FbonizziMonoGameUWP/FbonizziMonoGameUWP/UWPSettingsRepository.cs) with ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings
[Android] (https://github.com/FrancescoBonizzi/FbonizziMonoGame/blob/master/FbonizziMonoGameAndroid/FbonizziMonoGameAndroid/AndroidSettingsRepository.cs) with PreferenceManager.GetDefaultSharedPreferences(context)