Are you talking about two applications as in your title or two components as in your text? If the latter, there is no reason to use a ContentProvider; just use whatever is easiest since they share the same file system: raw files, data bases, shared preferences. For shared preferences, you want to avoid putting lots and lots of data there, since when you make a change it is all written out as one flat xml file.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:52 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi all, > Now I have 2 activities that would simultaneously access one data/ > settings. > However, two kind of solution can be applied after I study from the > Android Developer's Guild. > > One is ContentProvider, > The discription in guild is as: > "Content providers store and retrieve data and make it accessible to > all applications. They're the only way to share data across > applications; there's no common storage area that all Android packages > can access." > > and another is SharedPreferences, > "To use preferences that are shared across multiple application > components (activities, receivers, services, providers), you can use > the underlying Context.getSharedPreferences() method to retrieve a > preferences object stored under a specific name." > > What is the differenet between these 2 ? > > Thanks a lot! > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
