consider implementing cross-app preferences using a custom content
provider perchance?
(might be overkill, but nicer than hardwiring paths IMHO.)
>I have a need to share preferences between two apps, where one app
>writes the preferences and the other needs read only access.
>
>I notice that there is this API available in Context :
>
>public abstract SharedPreferences getSharedPreferences (String
>name, int mode). Where I can set the mode to : MODE_WORLD_READABLE
>which according to docs means that it will allow all other
>applications to have read access to the created file.
>
>My question is : What should be my filename so that the file gets
>created and is shared between the apps.
>
>If I give a relative path (getSahredPrefs("filename",
>MODE_WORLD_READABLE)) then it gets created in the "data" directory of
>the writing app and the other non creating application is not able to
>get to it using the same arguments i.e. - getSahredPrefs("filename",
>MODE_WORLD_READABLE).
>
>So I assume I need to provide a absolute path - something like ("/data/
>data/<pkgname>/<subdir>/filename", MODE_WORLD_READABLE) but I do not
>know how to construct that generically using provided APIs so that it
>works on every Android phone/image.
>
>
>
>
>
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