I tried this code, to retrieve shared preferences from an activity, and could not get it to work:
SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
sharedPreferences.getAll();
Log.d("AddNewRecord", "getAll: " + sharedPreferences.getAll());
Log.d("AddNewRecord", "Size: " + sharedPreferences.getAll().size());
Every time I tried, my preferences returned 0, even though I have 14 preferences saved by the preference activity. I finally found the answer. I added this to the preferences in the onCreate section.
getPreferenceManager().setSharedPreferencesName("defaultPreferences");
After I added this statement, my saved preferences returned as expected. I hope that this helps someone else who may experience the same issue that I did.