How to save number of times a user has tapped on a view

Question

I am designing a simple application that will count how many times a user has tapped on a imageView. My question is what would be the best way of saving and reading this file. Any suggestions? I am thinking something like using Parse.com's local database. I have tried it, but I could not get it working the way I wanted. I am still a beginner, so please not so fancy suggestions.

Answer 1

Simplest options is always thebest option, go with shared preferences

Here is simple tutorial from google http://developer.android.com/training/basics/data-storage/shared-preferences.html

It will store your data in application local file. Take a note of that there are different shared preferences in example getPreferences() will return file specific for activity you used this method. While getSharedPreferences() will return application global file.

Answer 2

Try to save data in SharedPreference. SharedPreference works like database for application on device that will be stored until any one has unistall app from device.

To create sharedPrefernce-

SharedPreferences prefs = this.getSharedPreferences(
      "com.example.app", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

To store data -

prefs.edit().putInt("key", int_value).apply();

To retrieve data-

// use a default value 
int l = prefs.getLong("key", default_value);