Question

I have an app that generates five strings every time I use it and I want these strings saved for use later, ie. when I open and run the app again. When I use the app the second time I want to save the new five stings for use later along with the first five strings I generated the first time I ran the app. On and on until I have say 10 sets of these five strings.

I and confused as to what it the best way to do this, Internal Memory, sql database, etc. could someone point me to a good example on the best practices for this. My experience with sql databases is very limited.

Answer 1

From the android website: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#pref

To save:

// We need an Editor object to make preference changes. 
// All objects are from android.context.Context
SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(PREFS_NAME, 0);
SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
editor.putBoolean("silentMode", mSilentMode);

// Commit the edits!
editor.commit();

To load:

SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(PREFS_NAME, 0);
boolean silent = settings.getBoolean("silentMode", false);