相当于Android中的plist

Question

I have developed an application on native iOS platform where I was reading user settings from the plist.

string settingsBundle = NSBundle.MainBundle.PathForResource ("Settings.bundle/Root", @"plist");
NSDictionary dic = NSDictionary.FromFile (settingsBundle);

I wonder what is the common way of doing it in the Android or Xamarin.Android

Answer 1

You can put default user settings in preferences.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <CheckBoxPreference
        android:key="pref_sync"
        android:title="@string/pref_sync"
        android:summary="@string/pref_sync_summ"
        android:defaultValue="true" />
    <ListPreference
        android:dependency="pref_sync"
        android:key="pref_syncConnectionType"
        android:title="@string/pref_syncConnectionType"
        android:dialogTitle="@string/pref_syncConnectionType"
        android:entries="@array/pref_syncConnectionTypes_entries"
        android:entryValues="@array/pref_syncConnectionTypes_values"
        android:defaultValue="@string/pref_syncConnectionTypes_default" />
</PreferenceScreen>

and read it like this:

SharedPreferences sharedPref = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
String syncConnPref = sharedPref.getString(SettingsActivity.KEY_PREF_SYNC_CONN, "");

See more details at Defining Preferences in XML