Thread: Storing/Retrieving Data with Shared Preferences

I have an application with 7 separate views. In each of those views there is an option to answer a 'yes' or 'no.' We are trying to save these 'yes' or 'no' values using shared preferences. Then, we want to have a new view/layout and be able to call those values from shared preferences. How do I go about doing that? My group and I have tried several different ways but cannot seem to get it to work. I know I don't have any code posted but it's because my code is just in bits and pieces. Thanks.

Probably should have been posted to the Android development forum but oh well.

If you just use getSharedPreferences() on a component you are creating an private shared preference only available to that activity. Use a PreferenceManager to get the default shared preference file instead.

SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
 
// Add a key/value pair
SharedPreferences.Editor editor = prefs.edit();
boolean myValue = true;
editor.putBoolean("myKey", myValue);
editor.commit();
 
// Retrieve a value
prefs.getBoolean("myKey", true);