Android :: SharedPreferences Limited In Size?
Mar 3, 2010I'm just wondering, if there is a limit on amount of data I can store in SharedPreferences. ( and if yes, what limit).
View 7 RepliesI'm just wondering, if there is a limit on amount of data I can store in SharedPreferences. ( and if yes, what limit).
View 7 RepliesApps amount limited by sd card size or number of pages for apps?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am wondering if it is possible to limit the size of the dalvik-cache. I am looking for an alternative to putting it on the sdcard. Maybe I could create a partition on the internal storage for the cache?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy problem is using SharedPreferences. I just created a <PreferenceScreen> which holds inside a <ListPreference> with an array of 5 different values. Very simple! The array of values are different numbers: 1, 2, 5, 10 and 30.Every time I change the setting, the application remembers that and I can see the setting I chose when I access the preferences once again (as an user). Now, in the code, when I retrieve the setting using the key (e.g. getString("delay", default_delay);), I always get the default value, it seems that the SharedPreferences does not find my setting. Can anybody help? I have read about SharedPreferences.getEditor().commit(), but that should be used only when changing settings from the code, not from the UI preferences.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI make an app with some activities.
The first is the login.
If I login correctly, I pass to the second activity, and I want download a stream (like twitter), but I cannot keep the session.
I saved user & pass in sharedpreferences, how can i keep the session through all activities?
Now that we can Examining sqlite3 Databases from a Remote Shell, is it possible to examine SharedPreferences from adb shell? Since it would be much more convenient to examine and manipulate SharedPreferences from command line when debugging. Or put in another way, in what files SharedPreferences are saved, and how to view and modify these files?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to save the date of file parsing, so that when next time user, opens the application, the date can be checked against the last parsing date. I am using shared preference to save the data and retrieve it, but getting error. here is the code:
SharedPreferences settings = getPreferences(0);
String today = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()).toString();
SharedPreferences.Editor edit = settings.edit();
System.out.println("******** Today : " + today);
edit.putString("lastdate", today);
String fetch = settings.getString("lastdate", "0");
System.out.println("******** Fetch : " + fetch);
txtTest.setText(fetch);
but I am getting null pointer error. am I missing something?
I'm implementing a feature that requires a password, is it safe to store using SharedPreferences.Editor? Is there another recommended way for storing passwords?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI've just tracked down a weird bug in our app where SharedPreferences were failing between power cycles of the phone.
It turns out that one of the strings we were saving had an "&" in it. When I look at the xml that is being persisted I see that this is being encoded as && instead of just &
This means that when you come to read the settings back you don't get any values at all. Is this a known issue? I see lots of posts about preferences dissappearing, but nothing about this.
How do I delete SharedPreferences data for my application?
I'm creating an application that uses a lot of web services to sync data. For testing purposes I need to wipe out some SharedPreferences values when I restart the app.
If not, is there any workaround? I have an array list of objects that have a name and an icon pointer. I do not want to use a database.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to prepare an update to one of my apps and I just realized that the updated version cannot read or write over the previous version's SharedPreferences.
Some details: * I'm using the 1.6 SDK and compiling for 1.5.3. * My androidmanifest.xml does not have a sharedUserId (I didn't think I need one if I was not sharing data between different apps).
How to reproduce: * Install my current app from the market * Run the app * Exit and save the setting - invoking SharedPreferences Editor commit (it's using MODE_PRIVATE) * Now install my new update (via a browser download) * Run the app * Everything works fine * Exit & Save *** Now reboot the phone * Run the app again ==> Can no longer access old data or write over it!!
Did I do something wrong? Is it because of the sharedUserId thing? Is it because of the way I'm testing - via market then browser? Why is LogCat reporting a UID change? ==> mismatched uid: 10031 on disk, 10046 in settings; Can I recover from this? I don't want to delete all of my users' data. error ...
I'm having a hard time figuring out the best way to pass simple values from onPause and onResume in the Android activity lifecycle. I understand how to use get and put extra bundles for activity to activity data, but does that work for passing data between the same activity? Should i used SharedPreferences?
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes somebody knows where the file with the actual stored SharedPreferences is located?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to change the android sharedPreferences save path,the sharedPreferences save in /data/data/xxx.xxx.xxx/shared_prefs,i want to change path to /sdcard. how i do?
View 1 Replies View RelatedFrom what I can incur out of the SharedPreferences documentation, I can update a preference, add one or clear all preference values in a shared preference file.
But I want to completely clear everything inside a shared preference file, not just the values, but the preferences they refer to as well.
Currently, I'm using the following code across all of my activities in my app to store application level variables and carry values between activities..
prefs = this.getSharedPreferences("MyPrefs", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
I didn't have a PreferenceActivity prior to this, but now I do and I am looking to store a few user prefs from this new PreferenceActivity in the same sharedPreferences tag, "MyPrefs".
I know I can access the PreferenceActivity SharedPrefs from my activities via
prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
but I would like those values saved to my current sharedPreferences tag, "MyPrefs", but I'm not sure how to do this.
I love how SharedPreferences work in android and I would like to know if there is an easy way to save them to another file so I could load a previous instance of the prefs and vice versa. Basically when you load this file, all the preferences would change to how you had it before at once. I want to be able to swap 3 or 4 different versions of the same pref keys in this way. Is there an easy way to do this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWe have an online multiplayer game that saves some login information in the SharedPreferences. Our app is copy protected and everything was going really well until this weekend when we released an update for it. It seems that at least some of the people are having their SharedPreferences deleted when they updated too the new app. As you can imagine our users are furious because they're all loosing their profiles, and our ranking is dropping fast.
We've tried to reproduce this a hundreds ways but are unable. We're wondering if this could be related to installing a copy protected app over a copy protected app? Since that's the only situation we haven't tested and can't test.
I want to store a time value and need to retrieve and edit it. Can somebody guide me here with a sample code/project please?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhy are my SharedPreferences suddenly deleted, after I updated my game in the Market?
Here is the logcat...
How can I retrieve SharedPreferences for a widget during an update pushed by a broadcast receiver?I have a static BuildUpdate method on my AppWidgetProvider, but I cannot work out how to retrieve my shared preferences as I do not have an appropriate context.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI've been pulling my hair out trying to achieve smooth scrolling in an OpenGL-based app on Eclair. It seems that no matter what I do, I cannot get more than 36 events per second (the rest is sent in history data which is useless in my case). This happens on both the emulator and the Motorola Milestone.Is this a hardcoded limit or am I doing something wrong? I'm implementing onTouchEvent on the activity and recording how many events are received per second and then send that info through Log.v to Eclipse. I also tried implementing onTouchEvent on the view instead of the activity and the results are the same.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy first android application has to do with showing activities at different times. All works fine ... except that when I retrieve the shared preferences in an activity activated from the notification manager, all my options are reset to default values.
Similarly, when I try to reinstall an alarm after the phone is switched off, all the previously stored shared preferences options are non-existent.Is there something special that has to be set in the manifest, or do I have to retrieve the context in a special manner? from a broadcastReceiver?
We want to store credentials for a user to a web service so the user doesn't have to repeatedly login, but we're concerned about security. We can't store a hash on the database, but we could probably use JCE encryption locally.
Is the content in SharedPreferences secured on the Android device?
We have an app that needs to be distributed to a large but limited audience.We are doing this through our own web site.Now that AT&T will not allow any downloads to the Flip except through the Android market, we need to have the capability to have a limited distribution on the Market.Can this be done on the Android market?Will the Android market include this in the future?
View 13 Replies View RelatedWe were told that, as of Android 1.6, background processes were put in a Linux process scheduling class that limited how much CPU they would use. A few weeks ago, I ran a benchmark test that seemed to validate this claim.I have run more tests, and I am no longer confident in my earlier conclusion. I can get a background process to significantly impact the foreground process, more than would seem to be possible if the background process was, indeed, CPU-limited.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've seen a lot of applications that utilize this view, but in my region (Israel) it seems to show a different view than what the Google Maps application shows. Google Maps shows everything you would expect from Google Maps except street view. However map view does not. It never shows streets and details, just a big blotch of gray. Satellite view works, but not with the best resolution the Maps application offers.Can anyone point me to documentation of this matter?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm new to Android platform but not new to software development. We want (in our company) to create Android software to compliment our truck management software. Basically, it will do couple very specific tasks.
a. Send GPS updates to server.
b. Receive trip information.
c. Send pickup/delivery confirmation to server.
After evaluating i.e. platform and Windows phone 7 platform we came to conclusion that only Android has multitasking that works for us. So, Android it is but I have some specific questions.
1. Data plan we want to use will be very limited. Probably 5M/mo and no voice/text. I figured 5x1024x1024 = 5242280 bytes will give me 1k per transmission every 15 minutes (3000 transmissions per mo). It will leave 2M for other stuff that will happens every couple of days. Does my math look OK or there is lot of "waste" traffic? Our server going to be XML SOAP and messages sent will be just Lon/Lat in XML package. 1K will be OK? If I just calculate bytes it will be even less but I wonder if there is "minimum" packet size, etc. Any insight on this data limitation appreciated.
2. Because of #1 we need to "lock" device somehow so there is no other software that uses network. Possible? If so, what do I need to look for? I found already created app - firewall and it says phone has to be rooted for that.
3. Receiving trip information. What's the best way to accomplish that given my situation? Should I run some kind of listener? Will my phone have IP address or something? Or should I get small text plan and use that for this specific functionality? Can I receive text message in my own application?
So, as you see we trying to shrink $80/mo service to $15/mo service that will do big savings to our company but not sure if it's all possible with constraints we have. Also, we may just give discounts to drivers who have Android phone and will install our app but we don't count on that.
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