Chapter 8. Sharing data between apps
In this chapter
- Sharing between processes
- Shared preferences files
- Accessing shared data
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people.
Mark Zuckerberg
You can do a lot in a single Android application. The possibilities are almost endless. But one of the differentiating features of the Android platform is that it allows—nay, encourages—applications to work together. In chapter 5, we talked extensively about how powerful multitasking is on Android. Consequently, you can assume that other applications are running at the same time as yours and vice versa. This leads to interesting possibilities. Multiple applications working ...
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