--- title: Stop Shipping Stale Data: Backend-Driven Cache Updates... description: A practical guide to implementing backend-driven cache updates on Android using WorkManager. The approach uses HTTP Cache-Control headers (max-age) from the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-shipping-stale-data-backend-driven-cache-updates-on-android-fat6dcn4o twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stop Shipping Stale Data: Backend-Driven Cache Updates on Android | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to implementing backend-driven cache updates on Android using WorkManager. The approach uses HTTP Cache-Control headers (max-age) from the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-shipping-stale-data-backend-driven-cache-updates-on-android-fat6dcn4o og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fAT6DCN4o.png og:image:alt: Stop Shipping Stale Data: Backend-Driven Cache Updates on Android 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. # Stop Shipping Stale Data: Backend-Driven Cache Updates on Android **[ProAndroidDev](https://daily.dev/sources/pand)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide to implementing backend-driven cache updates on Android using WorkManager. The approach uses HTTP Cache-Control headers (max-age) from the backend to schedule OneTimeWorkRequests that refresh locally cached data (SharedPreferences, Room, etc.) after a server-defined TTL. Key design decisions include per-key worker tagging to prevent conflicts, ExistingWorkPolicy.REPLACE to avoid duplicate updates, and graceful fallback to stale data on API failure. The pattern allows cache lifetimes to be adjusted server-side without shipping a new app version. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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