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DoubleP90
DoubleP90

Reputation: 1249

Save intent in shared preference

I have an application from which i can launch other apps installed on my phone, with a long click i get the app picker, in result i receive an intent data, how can i save it so the user when closes an comes back to my app has the same shortcuts setup?

i save other things like this

SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(PREFS_NAME, 0);
  SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
  editor.putInt("Counter1", counter);
  editor.putBoolean("FirstRun", firstRun);
  editor.putString("Label2", label2S);

  editor.commit();

But i can't do the same with the intent

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4767

Answers (2)

DoubleP90
DoubleP90

Reputation: 1249

Ok i found a way I save the intent like this 

SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(PREFERENCES, 0);
                SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
                String uriString = data.toUri(requestCode); 
                editor.putString("Contacts_app", uriString);
                editor.commit();

Then i retrieve it like this

SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(PREFERENCES, 0);
    String contactsApp = settings.getString("Contacts_app", null);
    try {
        telApp = Intent.parseUri(contactsApp, 0);
    } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Upvotes: 8

kgautron
kgautron

Reputation: 8283

You could serialize the object to a string, and save the resulting string in the preferences. An easy way would be to serialize it in json format, using Google Gson for example.

Upvotes: 0

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