Android Question Problems with shared preferences

[corvo]

Hi, i'm trying to access to shared preferences, but i don't find any good example, plz someone can share something?

Thank u

 

[Erel]

See this tutorial: PreferenceActivity tutorial

 

[corvo]

Thank u Erel, but i need to read a value of a software, how i can get this value? ( i know the name of this value) There is a get string?

 

[Erel]

Do you want to read a value of a different app? In most cases the preferences are saved in the internal folder, which is not accessible from other apps.

 

[corvo]

Yes Erel, i want to read a value of another app, i olked whit the programmer and he told to me to serach a value of a sharedpreference

 

[Erel]

The preferences are stored by default under:
/data/data/YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME/shared_prefs/YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME_preferences.xml

Try to read the other app file with File.ReadString. If it works then you will be able to extract the value with an XML parser.

However by default your app will not have access permission to this file.

 

[corvo]

Thank u Erel, i tryed it whit this code


Dim
gugu AsString

gugu=
"/data/data/com.app name/shared_prefs/"

File.Copy(gugu,"com.app name_preferences.xml",File.DirDefaultExternal,"com.app name_preferences.xml")

but i got an error "Access Denied" maybe i can do this

 

[Erel]

This means that you do not have access to this app data folder (as expected).