Not getting the updated value of the shared preference in the service

Question

I am storing some value to a shared preference from an activity which launched from a widget. If I retrieve that value from the service started from the same widget, it is n

Answer 1

use commit() after updating values, call this to have any changes you perform in the Editor

prefsEditor.commit();

change your code instead of this

SharedPreferences preferences = getSharedPreferences("preferences_target_value", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

to this

SharedPreferences preferences = getSharedPreferences("preferance name", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);