On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:54 AM, String <sterling.ud...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> In any case, I would agree that expecting them to synchronize between
> processes in real time is, um, unrealistic, but they definitely do work for
> the simple case of one app being able to read the prefs which another has
> written. Both apps need the same signature, AFAIK, and you need to be
> careful with permissions, but I've done this a few times now.

Don't you need to set the same sharedUserId in both apps for this to work?
(unless prefs are WORLD_READABLE). If the first app is already published
without a sharedUserId, will adding it in a next version break things? AFAIK, ,
adding sharedUserId changes the app's UID.

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