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Making data persistent in android


In my application,there are some application specific settings, which should be available to me , next time when my application starts up.



In other words i want the data to be available across the sessions of an application cycle.



Can this be achieved without using database(sqlite).


Source: Tips4allCCNA FINAL EXAM

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  1. Many applications may provide a way to capture user preferences on the settings of a specific application or an activity. For supporting this, Android provides a simple set of APIs.

    Preferences are typically name value pairs. They can be stored as “Shared Preferences” across various activities in an application (note currently it cannot be shared across processes). Or it can be something that needs to be stored specific to an activity.


    Shared Preferences: The shared preferences can be used by all the components (activities, services etc) off the applications.
    Activity handled preferences: These preferences can only be used with in the activity and can not be used by other components of the application.


    Shared Preferences:

    The shared preferences are managed with the help of the getSharedPreferences method of the Context class. The preferences are stored in a default file(1) or you can specify a file name(2) to be used to refer to the preferences.

    (1) Here is how you get the instance when you specify the file name

    public static final String PREF_FILE_NAME = "PrefFile";
    SharedPreferences preferences = getSharedPreferences(PREF_FILE_NAME, MODE_PRIVATE);


    MODE_PRIVATE is the operating mode for the preferences. It is the default mode and means the created file will be accessed by only the calling application. Other two mode supported are MODE_WORLD_READABLE and MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE. In MODE_WORLD_READABLE other application can read the created file but can not modify it. In case of MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE other applications also have write permissions for the created file.

    (2) The recommended way is to use by the default mode, without specifying the file name:

    SharedPreferences preferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);


    Finally, once you have the preferences instance, here is how you can retrieve the stored values from the preferences:

    int storedPreference = preferences.getInt("storedInt", 0);


    To store values in the preference file SharedPreference.Editor object has to be used. Editor is the nested interface of the SharedPreference class.

    SharedPreferences.Editor editor = preferences.edit();
    editor.putInt("storedInt", storedPreference); // value to store
    editor.commit();


    Editor also support methods like remove() and clear() to delete the preference value from the file.

    Activity Preferences:

    The shared preferences can be used by other application components. But if you do not need to share the preferences with other components and want to have activities private preferences. You can do that with the help of getPreferences() method of the activity. The getPreference method uses the getSharedPreferences() method with the name of the activity class for the preference file name.

    Following is the code to get preferences:

    SharedPreferences preferences = getPreferences(MODE_PRIVATE);
    int storedPreference = preferences.getInt("storedInt", 0);


    The code to store values is also same as in case of shared preferences.

    SharedPreferences preferences = getPreference(MODE_PRIVATE);
    SharedPreferences.Editor editor = preferences.edit();
    editor.putInt("storedInt", storedPreference); // value to store
    editor.commit();


    You can also use other methods like storing the activity state in database. Note Android also contains a package called android.preference. The package defines classes to implement application preferences UI.

    To see some more examples check Android's Data Storage post on developers site.

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  2. You should use shared preferences:

    SharedPreferences prefs = PreferencesManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);
    prefs.edit().putString("my_pref", "my_value").commit();


    And to retrieve it:

    String value = prefs.getString("my_pref", "default Value");


    These preferences are persistent, and are also integrated with the preference activities.

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  3. Please read about Data Storage in the dev guide.

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