Hello,

I'm fairly new to Android. As one of my first applications (other than Hello World), I've been developing an application that counts how many times you've pressed a button. That's all. I've managed to do this, but now I want to autosave the amount of button presses on exit. So what I'm trying to do is make sure that when the application is closed, the amount of button presses is saved, so you start with that number on the next startup. I've heard something about using SharedPreferences, but I'm having trouble finding out how to implement this. It would be a tremendous help if any of you could help me out with this.

H Cereal,
I think u can get lot on this topic in developer.android.com
here is the link http://developer.android.com/guide/topi ... .html#pref
i Hope this will start your journey

Hi Cereal Killer,

Here are a couple of simple methods to save and retrieve a preference like that:

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    //global constants and prefs variable
    public static final String PRESSES = "press_count";
    SharedPreferences prefs;
    int pressCount = 0;

    //in onCreate()
    prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);

    //save and retrieve methods
    private void getMyPreferences() {
        pressCount = prefs.getInt(PRESSES, 0);
        }//getpreferences

    private void savePreferences() {
        Editor editor = prefs.edit();
        editor.putInt(PRESSES, pressCount);
        editor.commit();
        }//savepreferences


Hope this helps.

Phyll