title: How to represent user application settings in Android
body: <p>Iam working on an android application and have trouble making a decision for the architecture saving application data.
  Following case:</p>
  
  <p>In the app the user has the possibility to create new general objects and give them properties he want. To support this, i want to give them a list with favorites before creating the input form, for example a car. It has color, weight, speed, horsepower etc.
  So the user can choose a often picked object (for example the car) and will get the appropriate fields for the form he has to fill (color, weigth ...).
  This list should be smart. The more you pick an item, the higher it appears in the list. And this presets have to be editable in preferences.</p>
  
  <p>And thats the point. Should I implement my idea with the preferences framework from android (save it to xml as different preferences types and simply load due preferencebuilder) or should i create own xml objects and save it to self created user file location?</p>
  
  <p>My second question: if i use the preference framework method .... is this made good for dynamically add entries at runtime? the ressources are in the res folder, but what if there are individual user entries? will they also be saved in the program folder or is there a special user data folder where the files (maybe encrypted) are in?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>