Access shared preference from a service

Question

I am fairly new to android.

I have an activity in my application. I used shared preferences to store some data related to that activity. Now, how can I access those stored data from another service class? Is it possible?

Your attention is highly appreciated.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '13 at 10:25

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Seeing as you're already in an application component that extends Context, you can simply use:

SharedPreferences prefs = this.getSharedPreferences("Pref name", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

Make sure you call this in or after onCreate().

answered Jan 20 '13 at 10:25

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 20 '13 at 10:30

Have a look here http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#pref

You can only access SharedPreferences within the same application ID.

If you want to access it from another application's context, you could put the mode to world-readable (but stronly not recommended and depreciated in API 17).

Access shared preference from a service

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