Hello Dianne,

Can I read somewhere more about this handling of system settings and
how is it designed ?

Thanks  alot !

  Frank



On 17 Apr., 00:26, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> Settings are stored in a lot of different places, depending on what they
> are.  It is done for access control reasons (the settings db is word
> readable, but some things should not be accessible to everyone), convenience
> (specific internal settings for a particular component), and other reasons
> such as sharing access with native code.
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Abhinav <abhinav.abhic...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > I was exploring the settings application in android and found that the
> > system settings were getting stored in two places, one in settings.db
> > database and the other in settings_preferences.xml file
>
> > Most of the settings are persisted in the database while a few are
> > persisted in a shared preferences file.
>
> > Any idea why this is done? Why not persist everything in the database?
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