Android :: Use SharedPreferences In Droid To Store , Fetch And Edit Values?
Sep 2, 2010I want to store a time value and need to retrieve and edit it. Can somebody guide me here with a sample code/project please?

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?
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 have an Android library project that makes calls to PreferencesManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences.
I have 2 version of my app, paid/free, and they are not able to access the preferences stored by the library code.
Can someone tell me the right way to store values in SharedPreferences in library code and have the values available to projects that include the library?
From 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.
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?
I want to ask where does the defaults values of memory min-free values of a Rom reside? I mean what file I would have to edit to edit those values?
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I do not mean localized versions of the same file - those multiple files should contain different string ids in the same language, so in code they would be refered like: R.strings1.my_string_1 R.strings1.my_string_2 R.strings2.my_string_3 etc. So, "strings1", "strings2", "strings3" would be a kind of namespace for them.
Or, another way is to have multiple R classes inside one project, which would deal with different stringsXXX.xml files.
Like, currently we can refer to "my.name.space.R" and to "android.R" at the same time, so is it possible to have: android.R my.name.space1.R my.name.space2.R etc
At the same time inside single project?
I'm kinda noob to android so please bear with me. I'm currently developing app which uses tabs. My question now is: how to store values of variables so I can access them on the other tabs? I want to create something similar to sessions in PHP where I can save variables on one page and access on the other.
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My 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.
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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?
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