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Preferences.Sync Method

Definition

Ensures that future reads from this preference node and its descendants reflect any changes that were committed to the persistent store (from any VM) prior to the sync invocation.

[Android.Runtime.Register("sync", "()V", "GetSyncHandler")]
public abstract void Sync ();
[<Android.Runtime.Register("sync", "()V", "GetSyncHandler")>]
abstract member Sync : unit -> unit
Attributes

Exceptions

if the backing store is unavailable or causes an operation failure.

if this node has been removed.

Remarks

Ensures that future reads from this preference node and its descendants reflect any changes that were committed to the persistent store (from any VM) prior to the sync invocation. As a side-effect, forces any changes in the contents of this preference node and its descendants to the persistent store, as if the flush method had been invoked on this node.

Java documentation for java.util.prefs.Preferences.sync().

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Applies to