Shared preferences between two processes of the same application

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In Android < 2.3 it works. One process can write changes and the other process can read the changes. The code to read/write shared preferences files (they are actually stored in files) checks if there have been any changes made to the file before reading/writing and they update their cached version accordingly.

In Android > 2.3 it works, but you need to specifically set MODE_MULTI_PROCESS when calling getSharedPreferences().

In Android 2.3 it is broken and it doesn’t work 🙁

Please note that MODE_MULTI_PROCESS is deprecated in API Level 23 (Android M).

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