title: What's the maximum size for an Android shared preference value?
body: <p>I fully appreciate dumping lots of data into the preferences is totally inappropriate, but my requirement is not that great, but large enough (potentially 500-5000 bytes) where I've no idea whether it's appropriate or not. The docs do not help.
  <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/SharedPreferences.Editor.html" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/SharedPreferences.Editor.html</a></p>
  
  <p>I've searched the net and Stackoverflow and can't find a definitive answer on:
  a) what the actual limit is, based on the underlying architecture
  b) what the practical limit is, based on performance (I find writing even short pref values can take a few seconds, but I suspect that's just a flash write delay)</p>
  
  <p>Would appreciate clarification.</p>