What is the most appropriate way to store user settings in Android application?

The most appropriate way to store user settings in an Android application is to use SharedPreferences[1]. SharedPreferences provide a simple key-value store for storing and retrieving small amounts of primitive data, such as booleans, floats, integers, longs, and strings.

To use SharedPreferences, you first need to get an instance of the SharedPreferences object by calling getSharedPreferences() or getPreferences() methods. Then you can use the SharedPreferences.Editor interface to modify the preferences and commit the changes[1].

For example, to save a user's password using SharedPreferences:

SharedPreferences sharedPref = getSharedPreferences("myPref", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
SharedPreferences.Editor editor = sharedPref.edit();
editor.putString("password", "myPassword");
editor.apply();

And to retrieve the saved password:

String password = sharedPref.getString("password", "defaultPassword");

However, it's important to not...