How to maintain session in android?

Question

Can anybody tell me how to maintain session for a user login. For example when the user sign- in to an application they have to be signed in unless the user logouts or unin

Answer 1

public class Session {

    private SharedPreferences prefs;

    public Session(Context cntx) {
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
        prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(cntx);
        editor = prefs.edit();
    }

    public void setusename(String usename) {
        editor.putString("usename", usename).commit();

    }

    public String getusename() {
        String usename = prefs.getString("usename","");
        return usename;
    }
}

Answer 2

You can obtain that behaivour in a few different ways, the one I prefer is setting a flag in the shared prefs. whe a user logs in an check it when the app is started if you get the default value the user is not loggend, else you should have your flag (i use the user name) set and avoid the log-in section.

Answer 3

Make one class for your SharedPreferences

public class Session {

    private SharedPreferences prefs;

    public Session(Context cntx) {
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
        prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(cntx);
    }

    public void setusename(String usename) {
        prefs.edit().putString("usename", usename).commit();
    }

    public String getusename() {
        String usename = prefs.getString("usename","");
        return usename;
    }
}

Now after making this class when you want to use it, use like this: make object of this class like

private Session session;//global variable 
session = new Session(cntx); //in oncreate 
//and now we set sharedpreference then use this like

session.setusename("USERNAME");

now whenever you want to get the username then same work is to be done for session object and call this

session.getusename();

Do same for password

Answer 4

Using this class will help you to store all types of sessions

public class Session {

    private SharedPreferences prefs;

    public Session(Context cntx) {
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
        prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(cntx);
    }

    public void set(String key,String value) {
        prefs.edit().putString(key, value).commit();
    }

    public String get(String key) {
        String value = prefs.getString(key,"");
        return value;
    }
}