Question

In Eclipse Classic I am developing an android app that has numerous save SharedPreferences and all with the same name of SharedPreference similar to below:

SavePreferences("NAME_OF_THE_SHAREDPREFERENCE", ("Some random text"));

But I want to change the name of the SharedPreference in another class. This will (if its possible) save me lot of time, instead of changing them one by one.

I know the Ctrl+H comand but I am not able to find the “NAME_OF_THE_SHAREDPREFERENCE”, and/or replace it with another name.

Feel free to ask questions if something is hard to understand by my explinations:-)

Answer 1

Is it because these strings are different?

NAME_OF_SHAREDPREFERENCE

is different from (missing “THE_”):

NAME_OF_THE_SHAREDPREFERENCE

Ok, that was just a typo… But you can use Find/Replace in each file Ctrl+F.

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I also recommend using a static variable instead of a hard-coded String:

class ClassA {
    public static final String SHAREDPREFERENCE_FILENAME = "something";

    ...
    mSharedPreferences = getSharedPreferences(SHAREDPREFERENCE_FILENAME, MODE_PRIVATE);
}

class ClassB {
    ...
    mSharedPreferences = getSharedPreferences(ClassA.SHAREDPREFERENCE_FILENAME, MODE_PRIVATE);
}

This way you only have to update one location.