So,

I want to be able to use SharedPreferences across different Activities in my app. I was doing this fine with a normal Activity that had a bunch of controls in a LinearLayout, and attaching to the OnClickListener events for each control and then commiting the preferences. Then in a different activity I coudl retreive those preferences using

getSharedPreferences(PREFS_NAME, 0);

where PREFS_NAME is a string defined in both activities.

This was going OK, but a little clunky...and then I found PreferenceActivity, and all its promised goodness of automatically handling the persistence of preferences. This is going fine, and values seem to be persisting within the PreferenceActivity, but I can't figure out how to get the preferences that are saved in my PreferenceActivity in other normal Activities.

I hope the answer to this is really simple. It probably is, but it's getting late and my brain is fried. Thanks in advance!

As predicted and answering my own question, I think this does the trick.

PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);

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