EasyPrefs

Deprecation notice: Since the arrival of Kotlin it has become easy to use the preferences in a typesafe manner without much boilerplate, for example, using this method. We advice to skip EasyPrefs for your next project.

A small library containing a wrapper/helper for the shared preferences of Android.

With this library you can initialize the shared preference inside the onCreate of the Application class of your app.

Java:

public class PrefsApplication extends Application {

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        // Initialize the Prefs class
        new Prefs.Builder()
                .setContext(this)
                .setMode(ContextWrapper.MODE_PRIVATE)
                .setPrefsName(getPackageName())
                .setUseDefaultSharedPreference(true)
                .build();
    }
}

Kotlin:

class PrefsApplication : Application() {

    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()
        // Initialize the Prefs class
        Prefs.Builder()
                .setContext(this)
                .setMode(ContextWrapper.MODE_PRIVATE)
                .setPrefsName(packageName)
                .setUseDefaultSharedPreference(true)
                .build()
    }

}

Usage

After initialization, you can use simple one-line methods to save values to the shared preferences anywhere in your app, such as:

• Prefs.putString(key, string)
• Prefs.putLong(key, long)
• Prefs.putBoolean(key, boolean)

Retrieving data from the Shared Preferences can be as simple as:

String data = Prefs.getString(key, default value)

If the shared preferences contains the key, the string will be obtained, otherwise the method returns the default string provided. No need for those pesky contains() or data != null checks!

For some examples, see the sample App.

Bonus feature: ordered sets

The default implementation of getStringSet on Android does not preserve the order of the strings in the set. For this purpose, EasyPrefs adds the methods:

void Prefs.putOrderedStringSet(String key, Set<String> value);

and

Set<String> Prefs.getOrderedStringSet(String key, Set<String> defaultValue);

which internally use Java's LinkedHashSet to retain a predictable iteration order. These methods have the added benefit of adding the missing functionality of storing sets to pre-Honeycomb devices.

Download

Grab the latest dependency through Gradle:

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.pixplicity.easyprefs:EasyPrefs:1.10.0'
}

License

Copyright 2014 Pixplicity (http://pixplicity.com)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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