The app context object is not available in the constructor. Try moving
that code in the onbind or onStart callback methods.
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On Sep 23, 7:49 pm, brooke <brooke.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some shared preferences (user_id, email) that I want to access
> from services and classes that are not subclassed from Activity. I
> have been trying to implement this today and keep hitting roadblocks.
>
> In particular, when I try to access getSharedPreferences, I get a null
> pointer exception. My code snippet is posted below.
>
> My goal here is to allow read access the shared preferences to objects
> and (potentially) services that aren't going to be directly exposed to
> the user. Any suggestions/examples that can help me along?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Brooke
>
> <snip>
> public class MyPrefs extends Service {
> public static final String PREFS_NAME = "MyPrefs";
> private int user_id;
> private String user_email;
> private String user_password;
> private Editor editor = null;
>
> private SharedPreferences settings = null;
>
> public MyPrefs () {
>
> settings = this.getSharedPreferences(PREFS_NAME,
> Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
> }
>
> </snip>
>
> the this.getSharedPreferences line causes a null pointer exception.
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