December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
8h 29m
English
Shared preferences provide a framework to store key-value pairs of primitive data types in XML format. Primitive data types includes Boolean, float, int, long, and string. Strings are stored in the Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) format. These files are typically stored in an application's /data/data/shared_pref path. For instance, the shared_pref folder for Android email app contains the following three XML files:

As explained in Chapter 2, Setting up Android Forensic Environment, the content of these files can be viewed using the cat command. The following ...
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