Android SharedPreferences in Fragment

Question

I am trying to read SharedPreferences inside Fragment. My code is what I use to get preferences in any other Activity.

     SharedPreferences preferences = g         


        

Answer 1

It is possible to get a context from within a Fragment

Just do

public class YourFragment extends Fragment {

    public View onCreateView(@NonNull LayoutInflater inflater,
                             ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        final View root = inflater.inflate(R.layout.yout_fragment_layout, container, false);
        // get context here
        Context context = getContext();
        // do as you please with the context


        // if you decide to go with second option
        SomeViewModel someViewModel = ViewModelProviders.of(this).get(SomeViewModel.class);
        Context context = homeViewModel.getContext();
        // do as you please with the context
        return root;
    }
}

You may also attached an AndroidViewModel in the onCreateView method that implements a method that returns the application context

public class SomeViewModel extends AndroidViewModel {

    private MutableLiveData<ArrayList<String>> someMutableData;
    Context context;

    public SomeViewModel(Application application) {
        super(application);
        context = getApplication().getApplicationContext();
        someMutableData = new MutableLiveData<>();
        .
        .
     }

     public Context getContext() {
         return context
     }
  }

Answer 2

Maybe this is helpfull to someone after few years. New way, on Androidx, of getting SharedPreferences() inside fragment is to implement into gradle dependencies

implementation "androidx.preference:preference:1.1.1"

and then, inside fragment call

SharedPreferences preferences;
preferences = androidx.preference.PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(getActivity());

Answer 3

use requiredactivity in fragment kotlin

 val sharedPreferences = requireActivity().getSharedPreferences(loginmasuk.LOGIN_DATA, Context.MODE_PRIVATE)

Answer 4

The method getSharedPreferences is a method of the Context object, so just calling getSharedPreferences from a Fragment will not work...because it is not a Context! (Activity is an extension of Context, so we can call getSharedPreferences from it).

So you have to get your applications Context by

// this = your fragment
SharedPreferences preferences = this.getActivity().getSharedPreferences("pref", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

Answer 5

To define the preference in Fragment: SharedPreferences pref = getActivity().getSharedPreferences("CargaDatosCR",Context.MODE_PRIVATE); editor.putString("credi_credito",cre); editor.commit();

To call another activity or fragment the preference data: SharedPreferences pref = getActivity().getSharedPreferences("CargaDatosCR", Context.MODE_PRIVATE); credit=pref.getString("credi_credito",""); if(credit.isNotEmpty)...

Answer 6

This did the trick for me

SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(getContext());

Check here https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/settings.html#ReadingPrefs