Yeah that works perfectly, in my situation I'm working on an existing
project that is already in the wild, so I can't rely on a value in the
preferences file to check for this though. That would be the best
solution I think.
To get around this, I can do something like the following (going off
your original solution):
File file = new File("/data/data/com.foo.bar/shared_prefs/
com.foo.bar_preferences.xml");
if (file.exists()) {
...
}
that is one big hard-coded string, but the existence of this file
seems to work ok. I guess it's alright?
Thanks
On Mar 18, 12:47 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mark Wyszomierski wrote:
> > Yeah that definition is perfect, having a little trouble implementing
> > it though.
>
> > I'm just trying to use:
>
> > File file = getFilesDir();
>
> > this points to:
>
> > /data/data/com.foo.bar/files
>
> > which is empty though, nothing gets written there during my app's
> > lifetime. My app's directory structure looks like this:
>
> > com/foo.bar
> > /cache
> > /databases
> > webviewstuff.db
> > /files
> > /lib
> > /shared_prefs
> > com.foo.bar_preferences.xml
>
> > should I be seeing databases/preferences? Or am I supposed to be
> > looking for the existence of /shared_prefs/
> > com.foo.bar_preferences.xml. If so, is there a proper way to resolve
> > that path other than kind of hard-coding it into my app?
>
> If you have shared preferences, then you can do this:
>
> Step #1: Get your shared preferences (hopefully
> PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences())
>
> Step #2: Look for the "hey! I've been run before" preference
>
> Step #2a: If that preference is not found, it's your first run, so set
> that preference (and commit() the change) and do your first-run logic
>
> Step #2b: If that preference is found, you've been run before,
> so...ummm...carry on, or whatever
>
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