Question

Can anyone tell me how I can save a list of custom Serializable objects into SharedPreference? I am new To Android and I want to save an ArrayList<Contact> list into shared preferences.

public class MainActivity extends SherlockFragmentActivity {
PlaceSlidesFragmentAdapter mAdapter;
ViewPager mPager;
PageIndicator mIndicator;

public static final String TAG = "detailsFragment";

public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.main,
            container, false);

    mAdapter = new PlaceSlidesFragmentAdapter(getActivity()
            .getSupportFragmentManager());

    mPager = (ViewPager) view.findViewById(R.id.pager);
    mPager.setAdapter(mAdapter);

    mIndicator = (CirclePageIndicator) view.findViewById(R.id.indicator);
    mIndicator.setViewPager(mPager);
    ((CirclePageIndicator) mIndicator).setSnap(true);

    mIndicator
            .setOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener() {
                @Override
                public void onPageSelected(int position) {
                    Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this.getActivity(),
                            "Changed to page " + position,
                            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }

                @Override
                public void onPageScrolled(int position,
                        float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {
                }

                @Override
                public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {
                }
            });
    return view;
    }



}

Answer 1

You can use the JSON format to serialize your ArrayList and the objects it contains, and then store the String result into the SharedPreferences.

When you want to get the data back, retrieve the String and use a JSONArray to retrieve each object and add it to a new ArrayList.

Otherwise you can simply use Object(Input/Output)Stream classes and write it into a differente file using (for writing)

FileOutputStream fos = this.openFileOutput(fileName, MODE_PRIVATE);
final OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fos);
JSONArray array = new JSONArray();

// Add your objects to the array

osw.write(array.toString());
osw.flush();
osw.close();