I am trying to implement "Add to Favorites" functionality using NSUserDefaults. So far I have written following code.
- (void)favouriteButtonClicked:(id)sender
{
favselected = !favselected; // favselected is BOOL property
MyAppDelegate *appDelegate = (MyAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
NSString* viewname = @"custom";
if(favselected) {
[favButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"selected.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[appDelegate addTOFavourites:self.ViewID viewType:self.ViewType];
} else {
[favButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"unselected.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[appDelegate removeFromFavourites:self.ViewID viewType:self.ViewType];
}
}
It is working fine as long as my application is running but when I killed my application, I am losing all my stored values so when next time view loaded, in viewload isAddedToFavorites method returns false. Is there anyway to preserve my values? Am I missing something?
if([appDelegate isAddedToFavorites:self.ViewID]) {
[favButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"selected.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
favselected = YES;
} else {
[favButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"unselected.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
favselected = NO;
}
Edit:
I tried using NSMutableDictionary as I have to add multiple key-values but following method always display Count=0 even after adding object to dictionary. Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you.
-(BOOL)isAddedToFavorites:(NSString*)viewID {
NSUserDefaults *standardUserDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSMutableDictionary *favourites = [[standardUserDefaults objectForKey:kFavouriteItemsKey] mutableCopy];
if(favourites && [[favourites objectForKey:kFavouriteItemsKey] objectForKey:viewID])
return YES;
return NO;
}
-(void)addToFavourites:(NSString*)viewID viewType:(NSString*)viewType {
NSUserDefaults *standardUserDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [[standardUserDefaults objectForKey:kFavouriteItemsKey] mutableCopy];
if(standardUserDefaults) {
if(![dict objectForKey:viewID])
[dict setObject:viewType forKey:viewID]; // It is coming here but still count zero!
NSLog(@"count = %d", [dict count]);
[standardUserDefaults setObject:dict forKey:kFavouriteItemsKey]; // Always dict remains null with 0 objects in it
[standardUserDefaults synchronize];
[dict release];
}
}
-(void)removeFromFavourites:(NSString*)viewID viewType:(NSString*)viewType {
NSUserDefaults *standardUserDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [[standardUserDefaults objectForKey:kFavouriteItemsKey] mutableCopy];
if(standardUserDefaults) {
if ([dict objectForKey:viewID])
[dict removeObjectForKey:viewID];
[standardUserDefaults setObject:dict forKey:kFavouriteItemsKey];
[standardUserDefaults synchronize];
[dict release];
}
}
Thanks.