Where are shared preferences stored

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Where in an Eclipse project might one encounter a shared preferences file

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The data is stored on the device  in your application s private data area   It is not in an Eclipse project

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Shared Preferences are the key value pairs that we can store  They are internal type of storage which means we do not have to create an external database to store it  To see it go to   1  Go to View in the menu bar  Select Tool Windows   2  Click on Device File Explorer   3  Device File Explorer opens up in the right hand side   4  Find the data folder and click on it   5  In the data folder  you can select another data folder   6  Try to search for your package name in this data folder  Ex  com example com  7  Then Click on shared prefs and open the  xml file   Hope this helps

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Just to save some of you time     On my Galaxy S v 2 3 3 Shared Preferences are not stored in  data data YOUR PACKAGE NAME shared prefs YOUR PREFS NAME xml  but are now located in   dbdata databases YOUR PACKAGE NAME shared prefs YOUR PREFS NAME xml  I believe they changed this in 2 3

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SharedPreferences are stored in an xml file in the app data folder  i e    data data YOUR PACKAGE NAME shared prefs YOUR PREFS NAME xml   or the default preferences at    data data YOUR PACKAGE NAME shared prefs YOUR PACKAGE NAME preferences xml   SharedPreferences added during runtime are not stored in the Eclipse project   Note  Accessing  data data  lt package name gt  requires superuser privileges

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Use  http   facebook github io stetho  library to access your app s local storage with chrome inspect tools  You can find sharedPreference file under Local storage -   lt  your app s package name

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Preferences can either be set in code or can be found in res xml preferences xml  You can read more about preferences on the Android SDK website

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I just tried to get path of shared preferences below like this This is work for me   File f   getDatabasePath  MyPrefsFile xml     if  f    null      Log i  TAG   f getAbsolutePath

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