I'm trying to save the player's top score so that It will be available after the process of the game is terminated. It seems like I got my write to work but whenever I try to read the file I get a <code>FileNotFoundException</code>. Wondering if one of you guys can see what I'm doing wrong.

//The method that saves the file.
public void saveGame(int score){
		BufferedWriter outputStream;
		
		try{
			outputStream = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(new
					File(getFilesDir()+File.separator+"scores.txt")));
			
			outputStream.write(Integer.toString(score));
			outputStream.close();
			
		} catch (Exception e){
			Log.d("outputStream Exception", e.getMessage());
		}
		
		Log.d("", "saved to file");
	}
	
        //The method that reads the file.
	public int readScores(){
		String read;
		StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder("");
		BufferedReader buffread;
		
		try {
			buffread = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new 
					File(getFilesDir()+File.separator+"scores.txt")));
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
			Log.d("here 0", e1.getMessage());
			return -1;
		}
		

		try {
			while ((read = buffread.readLine()) != null)
				builder.append(read);
		} catch (IOException e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
		}

		try {
			buffread.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		Log.d("", builder.toString());
		
		return Integer.parseInt(builder.toString());
	}

As it is Android, did you your permissions include the right to modify storage?

As it is Android, did you your permissions include the right to modify storage?

Hey frob. All the documentation that I can find says that when saving to internal storage you don't need to declare permissions. I went ahead and tried the code with and without perms when it wouldn't work though.

Hello TechnoGoth. Ive read the link you posted a few times but it didn't seem to help. The

SharedPreferences

class seems to work perfectly though.

For some reason my code is always returning the fail safe number. I just noticed that it wasn't actually working correctly.

public int readScores(){
			
			SharedPreferences data = getSharedPreferences("LIFETIME_GAME_DATA_2", Activity.MODE_PRIVATE);
			int bestScore = data.getInt("BEST_SCORE", 3);
		    Log.d("Best Score", String.valueOf(bestScore));
			return bestScore;
	
		}
		public void saveGame(int score){
		
			SharedPreferences data = getSharedPreferences("LIFETIME_GAME_DATA_2", Activity.MODE_PRIVATE);
		
			if (score > readScores())		
				data.edit().putInt("BEST_SCORE", score).apply();
		}

This is how my code looks now. I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong.