Android: use shared preferences to store and retrieve data

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

How to use shared preferences to store and retrieve data:

To store data:

SharedPreferences initialPref = getSharedPreferences("pref",MODE_PRIVATE);

Editor et=initialPref.edit();

String s1 = “data tostore”;

et.putString("DATA",s1);

et.commit();

To retrieve data stored in sharedpreferences:

SharedPreferences initialPref =getSharedPreferences("pref",MODE_PRIVATE);

String retrieveddata=initialPref.getString("DATA","");

Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),retrieveddata , Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();