Question

In my application i am using ksoap2 library to validate the username and password in android. now i want to know , which is the best and secure way to store commonly use information, so that i can fetch that information in any other screen whithout requesting my webserver using ksoap.

I am from the web background, so i know that in web we store the user information in session or cookies. Session is stroed on the server and cookie is stored on the local machine.

I also read about cookies in android but i dont know how it works and where it is saved.

please let me know how can i do this? If you know any tutorial that can help me to learn this thing then please post it. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use SharedPreference for storing information, in the form of key value pairs.

private SharedPreferences myUserPrefs;
private SharedPreferences.Editor myUserEdit;
 myUserPrefs = getApplicationContext().getSharedPreferences("name of shared preference", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
    myUserEdit =  myUserPrefs.edit();

to save some info in SharedPreference:

myuserEdit.putString("key", "value");
myUserEdit.commit();

To fetch some value:

String=myUserPrefs.getString("key", "default value");