Problems using SharedPreferences on a Service (getPreferences doesn't exist on a service)

Question

I have some shared preferences (latitude, longitude) that I want to access from a service, that is not subclassed from Activity.

In particular, when I try to access

Answer 1

If you have declared SharedPreferences as:

private static final String PREFS_NAME = "UserData"; 
private static final String PREFS_VALUE1 = "value1"; 

then use the below code to fetch values:

SharedPreferences preferences = context.getSharedPreferences(PREFS_NAME, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
value1 = preferences.getString(PREFS_VALUE1, "0");

In same way you can even save values to SharedPreferences.