How to clear old preferences when updating Android app?

Question

I have an app on the Google Play market. For various reasons that I won\'t bother going into, I have changed the type of some of my preferences. For example a preference t

Answer 1

You can also append the version number while getting SharedPreferences like this

context.getSharedPreferences("MyKey" + app_version_no, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

So if you update the app, the version number will change and you will have new set of preferences.