Hi,

I'm running into some strange behavior and was wondering if anyone else seen it.

I have an activity that onCreate gets an SharedPreferances.Editor then I add a variable to SharedPreferences and commit. I then start my service. In the service I retrieve the same variable and printout the value, sure enough its what I set in my Activity. However if I modify this value in my service, in get the updated version of it in my Activity I do not see the updated value. Instead I see the very original value that was set in my activity onCreate.

To summorize. When I set a value in my activity I can retrieve it in my service. But when I change the value in my service it does not see that change in my activity. In both cases when I set the values I "commit".

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Tom

Hi,

If your service is running the different process like in Remote Service. You are not gonna see the prefs changes made in another process like your Activity. Change your service to Local mode, in which they share the same process, will solve the problem.

Thanks krystox. I start the service with startService. How do you start services in local or seperate process? Do you mean to use bindService which implicitly starts a service?

In AndroidManifest.xml remove the android:process=":remote" in your service description.

Thanks krystox!

That did it.