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I have a Login Activity which stores credentials in its own SharedPreferences; then I added two getters for reading them, something like

public String getUsername() { return getPreferences(MODE_PRIVATE).getString("#username", null); }

but this throws a NPE when I call it like this

String mUser = (new Login()).getUsername();

It seems that the Activity cannot read its preferences after a simple contructor call, as if it were in some uncompleted state. I read lots of related topics, but wasn't able to find a solution. Basically, I need to share these credentials among activities in my application

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That's not how you create Activities. When you just call new Login(), it doesn't have a correct context to access the shared preferences. You should also NEVER, EVER call new on a class that extends Activity or Service. That's not how android classes work.

You'll need a way to get a reference to the Activity.

But it sounds like your design isn't correct. You shouldn't need to get at another activity's preferences. If you do, just put it in the defaultSharedPrefernces instead.

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Thanks for your suggestion, but I don't even know what defaultSharedPreferences are. Can you please edit yout post and explain yourself better? I'm a newbie in Android developement and only know what official tut states

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