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Kevin Galligan from Touchlab presented on Doppl code sharing and refactoring the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/august-meetup-refactoring-the-droidcon-app-a-nosql-alternative-h1afevn2x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/h1AFEvN2X.png og:image:alt: August Meetup: Refactoring the Droidcon App + A NoSQL Alternative og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # August Meetup: Refactoring the Droidcon App + A NoSQL Alternative **[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A recap of the August NY Android Developer meetup hosted at Meetup HQ. Kevin Galligan from Touchlab presented on Doppl code sharing and refactoring the Droidcon app. Priya from Couchbase then covered the benefits of using NoSQL as an embedded database on Android, including a preview of Couchbase Lite 2.0 as a JSON document-style alternative to SQLite for local data storage. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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