Android: Use UUID as primary key in SQLite

Question

My app needs to get synced with other app users (on there own devices). I also want to support offline editing, that are synchronized to the other collaborative users when t

Answer 1

One set of performance results for UUIDs as binary and text can be found in somewhat related UUID/SQLite question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11337522/3103448

Per the results, both binary and string UUIDs can be efficient in SQLite for Create and Query when indexed. A separate trade-off is whether a human readable string is preferred to the smaller data size of binary file size.