What's the maximum size for an Android shared preference value?

Question

I fully appreciate dumping lots of data into the preferences is totally inappropriate, but my requirement is not that great, but large enough (potentially 500-5000 bytes) wh

Answer 1

All shared prefs are stored in /data/data/[package name]/shared_prefs/[app name].xml, so i think there's no limit based on architecture.

I don't know practical limit but I think it's enough for you.