How To Transfer Sharedpreferences File From Internal Storage To External Storage?

How to copy sharedpreferences to external storage keeping xml format, so later it could be possible to share preferences. Tried to read sharedpreferences and save as a string into

Solution 1:

Use this code,

SharedPreferences preferences=this.getSharedPreferences("com.example.application", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
Map<String,?> keys = preferences.getAll();
Properties properties = new Properties();
for(Map.Entry<String,?> entry : keys.entrySet()){
    String key = entry.getKey();
    String value = entry.getValue().toString();
    properties.setProperty(key, value);      
}
try {
    File file = new File("externalPreferences.xml");
    FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream(file);
    properties.storeToXML(fileOut, "External Preferences");
    fileOut.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

and to retrive use this,

try {
    File file = new File("externalPreferences.xml");
    FileInputStream fileInput = new FileInputStream(file);
    Properties properties = new Properties();
    properties.loadFromXML(fileInput);
    fileInput.close();

    Enumeration enuKeys = properties.keys();
    SharedPreferences.Editor editor = preferences.edit();
    while (enuKeys.hasMoreElements()) {
        String key = (String) enuKeys.nextElement();
        String value = properties.getProperty(key);
        editor.putString(key, value);
        editor.commit();
    }
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

NOTE You can handle only String type preferences with this code,

Solution 2:

for load shared preference from file try this

private fun loadSharedPreferences(src: File, sharedPreferences : SharedPreferences) {
    try{
      var fileInput : FileInputStream = FileInputStream(src)
      val properties : Properties = Properties()
      properties.loadFromXML(fileInput)
      fileInput.close()
      val enuKeys = properties.keys()
      val editor = sharedPreferences.edit()
      while (enuKeys.hasMoreElements()){
        var key = enuKeys.nextElement() as String
        var value = properties.getProperty(key)
        when {
          key.contains("string",true) -> {    //in my case the key of a String contain "string"
            editor.putString(key, value)
          }
          key.contains("int", true) -> {    //in my case the key of a Int contain "int"
            editor.putInt(key, value.toInt())
          }
          key.contains("boolean", true) -> {  // //in my case the key of a Boolean contain "boolean"
            editor.putBoolean(key, value.toBoolean())
          }
        }

        editor.apply();
      }
    }catch ( e : FileNotFoundException) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    } catch ( e : IOException) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

  }