Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Essential API of the week we take a look at [Preferences](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials-preferences), which enable you to store application preferences in a key/value store.

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Show Notes:

*   [Xamarin.Essentials Documentation](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials)
*   [Xamarin.Essentials Getting Started Documentation](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials-getstarted)
*   [Preferences Documentation](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials-preferences)
*   [Source Code](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials-app)
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