Shared Preferences

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What is Shared Preferences?

Shared Preferences in Android are used to store data in key-value pairs. It works similar to a tiny database where you can save small pieces of data such as settings or the state of an application. When data is saved to Shared Preferences, it persists across user sessions, even if your application is killed or gets deleted. Data in Shared Preferences is not typically used for large amounts of data. To perform actions such as saving, retrieving, or editing data in Shared Preferences, you use an instance of SharedPreferences.Editor.

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Shared Preferences: common questions

Can I learn Shared Preferences in Hindi?

This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Shared Preferences in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.

Is this Shared Preferences tutorial for beginners?

It is lesson 59 of 113 in the free Android roadmap, in stage 7, Storage. If you are new to Android, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.

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