title: Android SharePreferrences General Questions
body: <p>I just have some basic questions about the way shared preferences work with Android:</p>
  
  <p>1) Are the preference files part of the application itself, or are they stored elsewhere on the user's phone?</p>
  
  <p>2) If I have created and modified preference files in the course of testing my app, will those preferences be the default settings for users, or do the users start with a clean slate?</p>