Android: Retrieving shared preferences of other application

Question

I have a settings application from which i have to retrieve other applications preferences, but i don\'t have the details of keys in them, how can i retrieve all the availab

Answer 1

Unfortunately the docs now don't even explain MODE_WORLD_READABLE and MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE, instead saying:

This constant was depreciated in API level 17. Creating world-readable files is very dangerous, and likely to cause security holes in applications. It is strongly discouraged; instead, ....etc

Since the depreciation, implementing file sharing between apps with sharedpreferences may be too risky, although it was simple. I'm not too concerned with security holes from the MODE_WORLD_READABLE mode in game apps where I just want to be able to transfer characters from one app to another. It's too bad they depreciated both sharing modes.