storing & loading your apps previous state

Question

I am using static session_counter to store the data, yes the data I want to retrieve when app is opened is a INTEGER

 private static int session_counter = 0;

MY app state

AFTER USER PERFORMED AN ACTION THE SESSION COUNTER SHOWS 1, BUT WHEN THE APPLICATION IS CLOSED AND RE-OPENED AGAIN THE COUNTER IS SET TO 0

I WANT THAT SESSION COUNTER TO BE THE SAME AS PREVIOUS STATE TILL THE SPECIFIC CONDITION IS MET

Answer 1

For applications such as this you need a way where you can persist the data between each session. as a previous answer mentioned shared preferences is the most effective way to do it.

Other alternatives exist as

1. Room
2. A remote database (Firebase) etc.

The structure will be somewhat like this

```

// Create object of SharedPreferences.
        SharedPreferences sharedPref = getSharedPreferences("mypref", 0);

        //now get Editor
        SharedPreferences.Editor editor = sharedPref.edit();

        //put your value
        editor.putString("session_value", required_Text);

        //commits your edits
        editor.commit();

       // Its used to retrieve data
       SharedPreferences sharedPref = getSharedPreferences("mypref", 0);
       String name = sharedPref.getString("session_value", "")

       ```

In your case it will be like

textView.text= sharedPref.getString("session_value", "")

if(condition){
editor.putString("session_value", required_Text);
}