How can I get shared preferences data?

Shared Preferences allow you to save and retrieve data in the form of key,value pair. In order to use shared preferences, you have to call a method getSharedPreferences() that returns a SharedPreference instance pointing to the file that contains the values of preferences.

To retrieve values from shared preferences: SharedPreferences sp = PreferenceManager. getDefaultSharedPreferences(this); String name = sp. getString(“Name”, “”); // Second parameter is the default value.

Shared Preferences are stored in XML format . Shared Preferences is application specific, i.e. the data is lost on performing one of the following options: on uninstalling the application.