How to examine SharedPreferences from adb shell?

Question

Now that we can Examining sqlite3 Databases from a Remote Shell, is it possible to examine SharedPreferences from adb shell? Since it would be much more convenient to examine an

Answer 1

First pull shared preferences file from device. This requires root permision.

adb pull /data/data/org.test/shared_prefs/MyKeys.xml MyKeys.xml

Now MyKeys.xml is stored in current directory of your system.

Modify values by

vim MyKeys.xml

After editing file save changes and push to device.

adb push MyKeys.xml /data/data/org.test/shared_prefs/MyKeys.xml

To Verify your changes

adb shell
cat /data/data/org.test/shared_prefs/MyKeys.xml