How to use SharedPreferences to save more than one values?

Question

I am developing a dictionary app. In my app, I assume that user wants to save favourite words. I have decided to use SharedPreferences to save these values

Answer 1

You could use a TreeMap (or other type of list which implements Serializable). Here's how I handled a list of favourites recently. In the TreeMap, Favourite is a class I use. In your case, you could just use TreeMap instead.

private static TreeMap favourites;

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// load favourites
FileInputStream fis=null;
ObjectInputStream ois = null;
try {
    fis = context.openFileInput(context.getString(R.string.favourites_file));
    try {
    ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
    favourites = (TreeMap) ois.readObject();
    } catch (StreamCorruptedException e) {
    } catch (IOException e) {
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
    }
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
} finally {
    try {
    if (ois!=null){
        ois.close();
    }
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }    
}

if (favourites==null){
    favourites = new TreeMap();     
}

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// save favourites
FileOutputStream fos=null;
ObjectOutputStream oos=null;
try {
    fos = context.openFileOutput(context.getString(R.string.favourites_file), MODE_PRIVATE);
    try {
    oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
    oos.writeObject(favourites);
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
} finally {
    if (oos!=null){
    try {
        oos.close();
    } catch (Exception e2) {

    }
    }    
}

You can also avoid the "::" thing you're doing to separate values.

Hope that helps...