PlayerPrefs and SharedPreferences in Android

Questions & Answers
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There is a documentation error in the PlayerPrefs reference:

It says that playerprefs are stored in Android as [pkg-name].xml
This was true until a recent Unity version. When I upgraded to 5.3 I noticed that my game stopped reading a deeplink url I was writing from my launcher Android activity to SharedPreferences: [packagename].xml.

Now, it seems, I have to write it to [packagename].v2.playerprefs.xml for Unity to read it from PlayerPrefs.

So here’s how to access PlayerPrefs in android in Unity 5.3:

SharedPreferences playerPrefs = this.getSharedPreferences(this.getPackageName() + ".v2.playerprefs", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

I don’t know if it’s ok to write question that includes the answer, but I thought other devs might run into the same problem.

2

Thanks
I had this problem before that is why I quit with unity

3

Thank you, you are the best.

4

It works like a charm

5

This isnt working on Unity 2019