Question

I googled for some API and examples of usage of SharedPreferences and I got this sort of a snippet:

SharedPreferences prefs = this.getSharedPreferences(
                          "com.example.app", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

When I put it into my code, I got a compile error that getSharedPreferences is not a defined activity for DownloadWebPageTask

Any idea where I am making a bone headed mistake here and how I should actually be using SharedPreferences to get access to that file saved on the system?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Unless you need different sets of preferences in the same application (unlikely) I suggest you use

SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);

(this needs to be a Context of course, e.g. an Activity or your Application)