Android Question Edit Shared_Prefs manually

Can you post examples of the pre & post edited files?

- Colin.

Which text editor are you using? Make sure to preserve the original end of line characters.

Computersmith64 said:

Can you post examples of the pre & post edited files?

- Colin.

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Can not send a file, as I am about 2 weeks on the road (Trucker).

I can tell you the exact facts:

Test Phone 1:
Android 4.3 with root

• Start myAPP
• change the settings
• close myAPP
• settings saved.

Load myAPP_preferences.xml with text editor, change a setting (True to False), save file with text editor.

Load myAPP, settings can be read, changed and saved.


Test Phone 2:
Android 6.01 with root

• Start myAPP
• change the settings
• close myAPP
• settings saved

Load myAPP_preferences.xml with text editor, change a setting (True to False), save file with text editor.

• Load myAPP
• settings are not read
• settings can be changed
• close myAPP
• settings are not saved

An Error was comming up, but i cant tell you exactly what it was.
Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/data/data/myApp/shared_prefs/myAPP_preferences.xml'

The strange Thing is, that myAPP can not delete the prefsfile itself.
(There is a Function in myAPP to delete the Settingsfile and build a new file with Defaultsettings)

Perhaps it has something to do with the new permissions since Android 6.

Anyway, I can not do anything in the next 2 weeks because I'm on the road through Europe.


Air

Sounds like you need to implement runtime permissions, or change your TargetSDK version to 19.

If no other App (Texteditor) changes the prefs-file, there is no problem with myAPP (This is also normally the case). Everything works fine.

This behavoiur only comes up, if the file was changed by another APP.

I just came across this phenomenon by chance and just wanted to know if it was normal.