Android: How to store cookies?

Question

In my Android app, each activity is filled with data from an xml file which is somewhere on the web. The website providing these files has a login mechanism, that works with

Answer 1

Use a CookieSyncManager to store your cookie value. It can persist across application starts.

Beware of using CookieSyncManager inside of WebViewClient#shouldInterceptRequest on KitKat. It will deadlock.

EDIT

CookieSyncManager was deprecated in API 21:

This class was deprecated in API level 21. The WebView now automatically syncs cookies as necessary. You no longer need to create or use the CookieSyncManager. To manually force a sync you can use the CookieManager method flush() which is a synchronous replacement for sync().