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Android Shared Preferences Overview Android stores Shared Preferences settings as XML file in shared_prefs folder under DATA/data/{application package} directory. The DATA folder can be obtained by calling Environment. getDataDirectory() .
SharedPreferences are stored in an xml file in the app data folder, i.e.
Open the device monitor by clicking it. Then you need to select the File Explorer tab in the device monitor. Find the data folder and find another data folder inside it. It will contain a folder having the name of your application package and there will be the desired SharedPreferences.
Shared Preferences allow you to save and retrieve data in the form of key,value pair. In order to use shared preferences, you have to call a method getSharedPreferences() that returns a SharedPreference instance pointing to the file that contains the values of preferences.
SharedPreferences are stored in an xml file in the app data folder, i.e.
/data/data/YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME/shared_prefs/YOUR_PREFS_NAME.xml
or the default preferences at:
/data/data/YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME/shared_prefs/YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME_preferences.xml
SharedPreferences added during runtime are not stored in the Eclipse project.
Note: Accessing /data/data/<package_name> requires superuser privileges
Preferences can either be set in code or can be found in res/xml/preferences.xml. You can read more about preferences on the Android SDK website.
Just to save some of you time...
On my Galaxy S v.2.3.3 Shared Preferences are not stored in:/data/data/YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME/shared_prefs/YOUR_PREFS_NAME.xml
but are now located in: /dbdata/databases/YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME/shared_prefs/YOUR_PREFS_NAME.xml
I believe they changed this in 2.3
I just tried to get path of shared preferences below like this.This is work for me.
File f = getDatabasePath("MyPrefsFile.xml");
if (f != null)
Log.i("TAG", f.getAbsolutePath());
The data is stored on the device, in your application's private data area. It is not in an Eclipse project.
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