How can I view the shared preferences file using Android Studio?

Question

I'm using shared preferences to store certain values for my app. I would like to see the file where the info is actually stored on my phone. I found many ways to do this on Eclipse, but I'm debugging on Android Studio. My phone is rooted. I read that having root access is important to read these types of files. If there is no way, then I will look up how to access the info through my program then output it to log cat. Hopefully, though, I can just view the file on the phone directly as it is much simpler. Thanks.

Answer 1

The Device File Explorer that is part of Android Studio 3.x is really good for exploring your preference file(s), cache items or database.

1. Shared Preferences /data/data//shared_prefs directory

It looks something like this

To open The Device File Explorer:

Click View > Tool Windows > Device File Explorer or click the Device File Explorer button in the tool window bar.