title: Flutter - How to use shared_preferences and Settings.bundle for iOS (and what about Android?)
body: <p>So we have a Flutter app - and it has a bunch of user preferences. To date, we've been using <code>shared_preferences</code> plugin to handle them (like everyone else in Flutter-land).  Life was happy.</p>
  
  <p>Now, our iOS users want to see some of these Preferences in the <code>Settings.app</code> area for our Application.  Currently, only the system standard ones are showing.  </p>
  
  <p>We created (via Xcode) a <code>Settings.bundle</code> file for a couple of new Preferences (before adding the other ones) -- and voila -- we see them in Settings for our app ..  However, we are NOT seeing them in the actual Flutter app -- we still only see the "other" preferences that are managed within the app itself.  </p>
  
  <p>We basically are doing a "dump" of the Preferences keys and values in debug mode .. and all we see are the ones we've defined in the app.. </p>
  
  <p>So two questions:</p>
  
  <p>1) Are we missing something?  Looking at the internal code for <code>shared_preferences</code> it appears to use the same "storage" area that <code>Settings.bundle</code> uses .. So why we're not seeing these Settings Preferences in the app is confusing.. yet we're seeing the other ones.</p>
  
  <p>2) What is the equivalent methodology in Android to set app preferences without having to launch the app?  One of our preferences only makes sense to set PRIOR to app launch .. and to be honest, I'm just not a prolific Android developer .. </p>
  
  <p>Cheers!</p>