Where does Android Account Manager store account specific preferences?

Question

I've been successful in creating various account authenticators / services each with their own preference.xml. These preferences are persistent but I do not know where on the phone they are stored. I've scoured the phone using adb but I can't seem to find a *.db or "shared_prefs" files that corresponds to the preferences for my particular accounts.

Anyone have experience with this?

Answer 1

I wondered the same thing, as I was searching for where android stored the Bundle "extras" with the account.

It's in a SQLite database (you'll need to root your phone to extract and browse it):

/data/system/users/0/accounts.db

You'll need to find your account for your app:

sqlite> select * from accounts;
24|john.doe|com.evernote|

Then use the id to find the extras:

sqlite> select * from extras where accounts_id = 24;
70|24|userId|8305749

Answer 2

As far as I can tell, /data/system/users/0/accounts.db is not really used anymore on current android versions.

I found all my account data in /data/system_de/0/accounts_de.db.

Additionally quite a bit of google authentication info seems to be cached in /data/system_ce/0/accounts_ce.db