android getSharedPreferences error: Map value without name attribute: boolean

Question

I am trying to figure out the cause of this error it occurs on startup when i try to get the shared preferences for the app. the code is just:

settings = this.getSha

Answer 1

thanks for the tip. the prefs file was

turns out i was writing a null preference name to the prefs - so the error was correct - though I don't think the API should let you do that since the prefs cant be read after that.

anyways, a bit of a schoolboy error, but got there ...

thanks for the quick reply, rob