How do you save/store objects in SharedPreferences on Android?

Question

I need to get user objects in many places, which contain many fields. After login, I want to save/store these user objects. How can we implement this kind of scenario?

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Answer 1

// SharedPrefHelper is a class contains the get and save sharedPrefernce data
public class SharedPrefHelper {

    // save data in sharedPrefences
    public static void setSharedOBJECT(Context context, String key, 
                                           Object value) {

        SharedPreferences sharedPreferences =  context.getSharedPreferences(
                context.getPackageName(), Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

        SharedPreferences.Editor prefsEditor = sharedPreferences.edit();
        Gson gson = new Gson();
        String json = gson.toJson(value);
        prefsEditor.putString(key, json);
        prefsEditor.apply();
    }

    // get data from sharedPrefences 
    public static Object getSharedOBJECT(Context context, String key) {

         SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = context.getSharedPreferences(
                           context.getPackageName(), Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

        Gson gson = new Gson();
        String json = sharedPreferences.getString(key, "");
        Object obj = gson.fromJson(json, Object.class);
        User objData = new Gson().fromJson(obj.toString(), User.class);
        return objData;
    }
}

// save data in your activity

User user = new User("Hussein","h@h.com","3107310890983");        
SharedPrefHelper.setSharedOBJECT(this,"your_key",user);        
User data = (User) SharedPrefHelper.getSharedOBJECT(this,"your_key");

Toast.makeText(this,data.getName()+"\n"+data.getEmail()+"\n"+data.getPhone(),Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

// User is the class you want to save its objects

public class User {

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public String getPhone() {
        return phone;
    }

    public void setPhone(String phone) {
        this.phone = phone;
    }

    private String name,email,phone;
    public User(String name,String email,String phone){
          this.name=name;
          this.email=email;
          this.phone=phone;
    }
}

// put this in gradle

compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.7'

hope this helps you :)