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

Helper bash function

function adb-pull-prefs {
    # ${1} - app package
    # ${2} - prefs name
    adb exec-out run-as ${1} cat /data/data/${1}/shared_prefs/${2}.xml
}

Answer 2

In case anyone else is running into "Permission Denied" errors using all of the above suggestions like I was, you may need to use exec-out like this:

adb exec-out run-as <package.name> cat /data/data/<package.name>/shared_prefs/<package.name>_preferences.xml