shared-prefs-explorer

A little stand-alone browser to read and edit your SharedPreferences.

Add it to your project

Step 1 add repository

Add jitpack.io to your root project build.gradle file:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        ...
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

Step 2 add the dependency

dependencies {
    debugImplementation 'uk.co.conjure:shared-prefs-explorer:<TAG>'
}

Note that we recommend adding the explorere as debugImplementation dependency. This way it will only be added to your debug build.

Starting the Explorer via ADB

You can start the Activity from your Terminal by replacing com.example.project with your projects package name.

adb shell am start com.example.project/uk.co.conjure.sharedprefsexplorer.PreferenceBrowserActivity

Starting the Explorer in Code

If you want to start the Explorer programmatically e.g. by adding a button you can do so via

import uk.co.conjure.sharedprefsexplorer.PreferenceBrowserActivity
//...
 
 context.startActivity(Intent(context, PreferenceBrowserActivity::class.java))
 

If you added the dependency as debugImplementation this Activity will not be available in your release code. A nice way to get around this is demonstrated in the app folder. By creating the same SharedPrefsExplorerProxy class in both the debug and release folder the call to its start function is a noop in production while starting the browser in your debug build.