Hello im a beginner in Android Studio, I have a problem with saving an Object to a file.
First I use the Gson libary to make the Object 'Appdata' to an JSON String and I save this String in the file Appdata.txt
Here is my InternalStorage.java class
package com.example.fragment.AppData.Logic;
import android.content.Context;
import com.example.fragment.UserInterface.MainActivity;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
public class InternalStorage {
private static InternalStorage instance = null;
private static Gson gson = new Gson();
public boolean saveData(AppData saveData) {
gson.toJson(saveData);
String s = gson.toJson(saveData);
FileOutputStream fOut = null;
try {
fOut = MainActivity.getInstance().getContext().openFileOutput("appdata.txt", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
fOut.write(s.getBytes());
fOut.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
public AppData loadData() {
FileInputStream fis = null;
try {
fis = MainActivity.getInstance().getContext().openFileInput("appdata.txt");
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis);
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(isr);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while (true) {
try {
if (((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null))
sb.append(line+"\n");
break;
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
String s = sb.toString();
AppData newData = null;
try {
newData = gson.fromJson(s, AppData.class);
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
return newData;
}
}
I use this method in the Appdata Class :
public AppData loadData() {
return internalStorage.loadData();
}
public boolean saveAppData() {
return internalStorage.saveData(this);
}
Here I use the Appdata in the MainActivity. (I don't think its neccessary to post all 3 Classes)
appData.loadData();
//change something in AppData
if(!appData.saveAppData()){
//Inform the User about the not working Save
}
The Problem is that changes are not saved.
As I see you are beginner in Android development not just in Android studio. Do not make an Activity as a Singleton. About the question. If you wanna just save an object android provide a SharedPreferences
https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared-preferences
But if you really need to create a file I think you just forgot to get access to permissions.