Androidx Preferences not incuding RingtonePreference

Question

I'm doing the settings activity for my app via code since the xml editor wont find any preferences but PreferenceScreen. Via code everything is working but I can not find the RingtonePreferences from Androidx, the only one I find is the one from android.preference.RingtonePreference.

I have this implementation.

implementation "androidx.preference:preference:1.1.0-alpha02"

RingtonePreference has not been added yet? or there is another preference under another name I can use in order to let users choose a notification sound. Thanks!

Dao

Answer 1

RingtonePreference has not been added yet?

Google has stated that their libraries will not support RingtonePreference.

or there is another preference under another name I can use in order to let users choose a notification sound

Use a ListPreference. Or use this workaround. Or create a custom Preference that integrates with the ringtone APIs.

Improbability

Did anybody dare to implement such a custom preference? As far as I understand they wanted to avoid "some awkward plumbing". The workaround is helpful but the preference summary does not get updated. – Stylographic

@yasd: I haven't seen one, though creating one using this library ought to be relatively easy. – Improbability

changed <RingtonePreference to <Preference with android:key="@string/pref_notification_sound" but preference.getKey() = null. Any ideas? – Bink

@JimClermonts: I recommend that you ask a separate Stack Overflow question where you can provide a minimal reproducible example. – Improbability