Android - How to use SharedPreferences in non-Activity class?

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Jake Wilson picture Jake Wilson · Sep 20, 2011 · Viewed 54.1k times · Source

How do you use SharedPreferences in a non-Activity class? I tried making a generic Preferences utility class and importing android.content.Context but Eclipse still wouldn't let me use getSharedPreferences().

Answer

Sandor picture Sandor · Sep 20, 2011

SharedPreferences are related to context. You can only reference it through a context.

You can simply pass context as a parameter to your class. For example in the constructor.

In your activity do:

MyClass myClass = new MyClass(this);

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