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user2779837
user2779837

Reputation: 311

How to save app settings?

How can I save the the settings of my app? Right now, for example, I have a togglebutton to turn on/off. But if I restart my phone, the toggle button is turned back on. Its not saving the settings if I completely close the app. Can I like the save the settings to the phone as cookies?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 11572

Answers (6)

Michael Yaworski
Michael Yaworski

Reputation: 13483

Use Shared Preferences. Like so:

Put this at the top of your class: public static final String myPref = "preferenceName";

Create these methods for use, or just use the content inside of the methods whenever you want:

public String getPreferenceValue()
{
   SharedPreferences sp = getSharedPreferences(myPref,0);
   String str = sp.getString("myStore","TheDefaultValueIfNoValueFoundOfThisKey");
   return str;
}

public void writeToPreference(String thePreference)
{
   SharedPreferences.Editor editor = getSharedPreferences(myPref,0).edit();
   editor.putString("myStore", thePreference);
   editor.commit();
}

You could call them like this:

writeToPreference("on"); // stores that the preference is "on"
writeToPreference("off"); // stores that the preference is "off"

if (getPreferenceValue().equals("on"))
{
   // turn the toggle button on
}
else if (getPreferenceValue().equals("off"))
{
   // turn the toggle button off
}
else if (getPreferenceValue().equals("TheDefaultValueIfNoValueFoundOfThisKey"))
{
   // a preference has not been created
}

Note: you can do this with boolean, integer, etc.

All you have to do is change the String storing and reading to boolean, or whatever type you want.

Here is a link to a pastie with the code above modified to store a boolean instead: http://pastie.org/8400737

Upvotes: 18

Mitesh Shah
Mitesh Shah

Reputation: 1739

Use SharedPreferences as,

To Save:

 SharedPreferences settings;
 SharedPreferences.Editor editor;
 public static final String PREFS_NAME = "app_pref";
 public static final String KEY_p_id = "KEY_test";

    settings = getSharedPreferences(PREFS_NAME, 0);
    editor = settings.edit();
    editor.putString(Login_screen.KEY_test, values.get(0));
    editor.commit();

To Remove:

    editor.remove("KEY_test").commit();

Upvotes: 2

Jitender Dev
Jitender Dev

Reputation: 6925

Use SharedPreferences to save small chunk of app data. Check the developer's website for this.

Also check out this Tutorial for step by step guide.

Upvotes: 0

arshu
arshu

Reputation: 11915

You need to use SharedPreferences to save the settings of your app locally. Refer this link for more details : http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/SharedPreferences.html

Upvotes: 2

telkins
telkins

Reputation: 10540

You should check out SharedPreferences. It's Android's way of persisting simple values. Or you could create a full database.

Upvotes: 0

Hamidreza Shahmoradi
Hamidreza Shahmoradi

Reputation: 31

You can use local DB like SQlite for for your app.

Upvotes: -3

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