How to Secure Android Shared Preferences?

Question

The common location where SharedPreferences are stored in Android apps is:

/data/data//shared_prefs/
         


        

Answer 1

Google has released EncryptedSharedPreferences as part of it's androidx, I believe this should be the preferable way of encrypting the preferences.

See https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/security/crypto/EncryptedSharedPreferences