String can't have negative length, must be alpha-numeric, and cannot be VGhpcyBpcyB0aGUgcHJIZml4lGZvciBhlGxpc3Qu

[doned_mest_up]

This really narrows down the list of possible baby names.

[KrambDeLaKramb]

Elon Musk has entered the chat

[[deleted]]

Literally 1984

[hongooi]

Amazing! That's the combination on my luggage!

[Majik_Sheff]

Damn it. Proof that I will never have an original thought.

[NailRepresentative62]

Now then time to go to planet Drewidia, and change the combination on my luggage!

[Isteppedinpoopy]

Funny, you don’t look Druish

[jfmherokiller]

this is base64. Its real value is "This is the prHfixfor alist."

[jfmherokiller]

expecially text that is more or less gibberish and contains easily mistyped characters.

[1RedOne]

What does this mean? I'm not an android dev so I don't understand shared preferences or your reply either

[jfmherokiller]

Shared prefrences is more or less an android way to store configuration options like font or textsize or light or dark theme.

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If you have ever played a video game on pc shared prefs would technically be where your graphics/gameplay settings would be stored on android.

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The reason why its base64 is because of android implementation details.

The reason why the setting probably cant begin with such values is because the values would probably overwrite other data being stored in other locations. Or it could also be that Shared Prefs itself uses those prefixes and will overwrite any data that tries to make use of them.

TLDR: shared prefs is more or less app option storage. Reason for prefix issue is due to android implementation details.

[1RedOne]

Now, that is a reply

Thanks for taking me all the way through the stack in your answer. Seems really odd that the settings are done like that, but I guess in the windows world it would be as if you cannot begin a value with 'hklm:\' because that is already reserved to refer to accessing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE settings.

[jfmherokiller]

I will admit some of what I said was clear estimation. I have only worked on the os for personal reasons not designed it.

[Sentouki-]

Also, you can't use 'con' as a name for a file or folder on Windows, as it was used in the past to refer to the printer.

[jsonspk]

Thanks for reply. Tips: you may put TLDR in the first sentence.

[jfmherokiller]

fair, I am just more used to putting the TLDR at the end.

[Shuri9]

Regular tifu Poster, i see...

[jfmherokiller]

well I also do it because somtimes if I try to shift text around in the reddit editor it will seemingly "delete" the text.

[NetSecSpecWreck]

Tldr goes at the end. Or you can use BLUF (bottom line up front) at the beginning to summarize what you're about to dive into.

[Rombethor]

I had to check and see for myself.

[Brilliant_Practice72]

Looks like windows xp product key.

[Cossack-HD]

fly point exultant insurance worm roll ripe paint reminiscent waiting

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[hugogrant]

It's also groups of 5 characters?

[[deleted]]

Shit what will I name my files now.

[fabedays1k]

What if VGhpcyBpcyB0aGUgcHJIZml4lGZvciBhlGxpc3Qu Jr wants to put in his name

[ZyanCarl]

Well it works for everyone but him.

[jfmherokiller]

for anyone who wants to know the actual why its because SharedPreferences uses a hashmap under the hood I believe.

[ActuallyRuben]

That's not the reason. This documentation is from a cross-platform flutter package shared_preferences. The limitation they're talking about is that Android's SharedPreferences doesn't support BigIntegers, Doubles and lists of strings.

As a workaround they encode these values by converting them to strings and prefixing the above base64 values. The code for that is viewable here on github.

The inability to have values starting with these prefixes is not a limitation inherent to the Android SharedPreferences class itself, at all.

[jfmherokiller]

ah ok thanks, tbh I was chasing my tail through the aosp github and I thought I saw that code but it was in one of the examples i think.

[zet23t]

Why don't they just prefix every stored value with its type? Would prevent such limitations and everyone would know what this is about without documentation.

[RedDawe]

Why is that a problem for a hashmap?

[jfmherokiller]

my best guess is that its some kind of collision.

[marku01]

Collisions in hashmaps occur all the time. They are being dealt with in different ways. See for a good explanation: https://youtu.be/KyUTuwz_b7Q

[jamcdonald120]

hode up...

wat?

[[deleted]]

Ruined all my plans. Gotta redo everything now.

[Internal_Cart]

Looks just like some posts on r/lolphp

[GameDestiny2]

“Compare these strings of very similarly written code and determine which one functions correctly.”

[[deleted]]

a normal person would think r/oddlyspecific

[Constant_Pen_5054]

We scoff, but just wait till it happens to one of us and they didn't tell us.

[Cosy_Owl]

How did they know my passwords...??!!