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Yeshia
Yeshia

Reputation: 51

What exactly happens when you clear storage for an android app

When my android app is first launched it runs through an initialization routine to set everything up the first time. If I then go into settings and Clear Storage for my App, it no longer starts. Just hangs on the initial icon splash screen. I would expect it act as if it was just installed fresh.

I'm wondering what exactly happens when you clear the storage?

My app uses SQLite and SharedPreferences. The first thing I do is check both of those to see if they are present, my tables are present, and that there is data in them. If not, I do my first launch routine.

I'm not sure showing code would help, as I more curious what all gets deleted when you clear storage, because it seems to completely corrupt my app. Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4521

Answers (1)

Francesco Fastelli
Francesco Fastelli

Reputation: 36

Clear storage deletes all the data saved. So if you have a database or shared preferences all data are deleted. To be more clear, when you delete storage you are like a new user that download the app for the first time.

Upvotes: 2

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