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Android Android Activity Lifecycle Introducing SharedPreferences Saving and Retrieving Data with SharedPreferences

Posted by Ja'Nel Johnson
Ja'Nel Johnson
10,314 Points

Can someone help me with challenges for SharedPreferences?

I got through challenge 1 but not I can't get through challenge 2. I'm following along with the video, but I'm missing something.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Challenge 2: Now declare a SharedPreferences field named mSharedPreferences and an Editor field named mEditor. Then initialize both of these fields in the onCreate method.

1 Answer

Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points
Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

Hi Ja'Nel,

It should be 

  private SharedPreferences.Editor mEditor;

instead of just 

  private Editor mEditor;

Secondly your forgetting to put some things inside your getSharedPreferences("code should be in here")

mSharedPreferences = getSharedPreferences(PREFS_FILE, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

Do you remember that? And then we initialize the mEditor variable by calling edit() on our mSharedPreferences

 mEditor = mSharedPreferences.edit();