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POAndroid: how to get list of all preference xml's for my app and read them?
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copied!<p>how to get list of all application preferences for application, </p> <p><strong>1.</strong> I am saving shared preference in this manner<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/p3xx6.png" alt="Activity to save key value pair in desired preference xml"></p> <p><strong>2.</strong> I know that they are in <code>data/data/app_packagename/shared_prefs</code> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pTtGS.png" alt="Preference Xml's shared_pref folder"></p> <hr> <p><strong>3. THE PROBLEM:</strong> But how to get list of all preference xml files in a spinner <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tF9Aj.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>and read each preference, i searched in <a href="http://stackoverflow.com">SO</a>, but i did not found any help regarding this, how to do read all preference xml files in my application directory and access the preferences?</p> <p><strong><em>P.S:</strong> I am aware of</em> <code>SharedPreference.getAll();</code>, will be enough to read once i get the file?</p> <p>I have wrote in bits(Rough Code), it give error when tried to run, here is the implemented method</p> <pre><code>void getList() { //will be invoked from onCreate to populate spinner,yes spinner is already binded PackageManager m = getPackageManager(); String s = getPackageName(); try { PackageInfo p = m.getPackageInfo(s, 0); s = p.applicationInfo.dataDir; } catch (NameNotFoundException e) { Log.w("yourtag", "Error Package name not found ", e); } Log.i("dir", s=s+"/shared_prefs"); //is this write way, how to proceed from here } </code></pre>

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