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

If you'd like to edit Shared Preferences from adb scripts, please see how to get root on Android emulator here. (If using 'adb root' is not enought in your case).

If you wish to install vi editor/busybox on Android go here. [OPTIONAL]

To edit a shared preference value, you need to first COPY app's xml file to SDstorage, copy it to your local filesystem, edit and then upload back to the phone.

adb shell
su
cp /data/data/com.your.package.name/shared_prefs/com.your.package.name_preferences.xml /storage/emulated/0/
adb pull /storage/emulated/0/com.your.package.name_preferences.xml
nano com.your.package.name_preferences.xml
adb push com.your.package.name_preferences.xml /storage/emulated/0/com.your.package.name_preferences.xml
cp /storage/emulated/0/com.your.package.name_preferences.xml /data/data/com.your.package.name/shared_prefs/com.your.package.name_preferences.xml

Don't forget to RESTART the app to see the results.