android-preferences Questions

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Is there any way to add a button to the bottom of preferences screen and make them work correct when scrolling?
Bicentennial asked 23/4, 2010 at 8:43

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What is the difference between getDefaultSharedPreferences and getSharedPreferences in Android? Can anyone please explain?
Triserial asked 10/5, 2011 at 6:37

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I am trying to make a Settings Activity using a PreferenceActivity. The problem is that the ActionBar won't show up no matter what I do. I've tried getSupportActionBar, getActionBar, setActionBar....

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After following this tutorial to create a screen for preferences, there seems to be a problem with inflating the class 'androidx.preference.PreferenceScreen'. Why is it not found when my preference...
Magnanimity asked 4/12, 2018 at 14:55

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How to get all keys in SharedPreferences, not the value of the preference just key only? prefA = getSharedPreferences("MyAttack", MODE_PRIVATE); prefB= getSharedPreferences("MySkill", MODE_PRIVATE...
Estes asked 28/2, 2014 at 7:57

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I was following the instructions on docs to use Android Jetpack preference library, but I am getting the following error java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{ ... act...
Unnerve asked 25/1, 2019 at 13:57

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I'm registering a preference change listener like this (in the onCreate() of my main activity): SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this); prefs.registerOnShar...
Tetrahedral asked 30/3, 2010 at 4:55

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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 fr...

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Is possible to hide a preference in a PreferenceScreen? I don't need to disable it, it must be invisible (sometimes) Important: I need to keep the min API level 7+
Corrugate asked 3/11, 2011 at 8:19

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first question. long time searcher. i implemented a timePicker preference through expansion of DialogPreference as in the android docs. all works well and i can set the summary through onSharedPre...
Spondaic asked 15/3, 2014 at 16:20

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I'd like to subclass Preference to create a custom preference item in Kotlin. I am unable to get the custom preference to inflate in the Preference screen. If I remove this custom preference from m...

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I am trying to implement preferences with sub-screens using AppCompatActivity and support.v7.preference According to the docs, every PreferenceScreen within another PreferenceScreen functions as a...
Hermia asked 10/1, 2016 at 3:27

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I've migrated to androidx.* libraries and one of them is the new preferences library: androidx.preference:preference:1.1.0-alpha01 - the latest version of it. As said in release notes iconSpaceRes...
Saying asked 23/11, 2018 at 8:53

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When testing a android.preference.PreferenceActivity, I get the following warning: warning: [deprecation] getFragmentManager() in Activity has been deprecated That is how I obtain a handle to ...

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I want to detect when a Preference contained in a ListView gets clicked, so that I can launch an intent to manage that selection. I would have done like this in my layout XML file: <Preference a...

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In my preferences.xml I have a preference element like this: <Preference android:title="About" /> I want to assign onClick event, so if user would click on it, I would be able to do open n...
Martines asked 16/3, 2011 at 19:27

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With Android x the DialogPreference is moved to DialogPreferenceCompat . As there are many ways to make a custom layout in the Preference settings . I am looking for more clean and better way to ...
Georganngeorge asked 21/10, 2018 at 7:40

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Using latest V14 Preference Support Library. Translucent Theme on API > 19 EditTextPreferenceCompat inside PreferenceFragmentCompat Problem Tapping on EditTextPreferenceCompat is followed by p...
Disembarrass asked 2/12, 2016 at 8:59

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I have a big problem with the SharedPreferences in Android. The preferences are adding unwanted chars to one of my string values once the application is closed. Actually it is a configurable escape...
Chiromancy asked 26/12, 2015 at 13:57

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I have an SettingsActivity extending AppCompatPreferenceActivity. my pref_headers.xml looks like this: <preference-headers xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <h...
Kareenkarel asked 30/7, 2018 at 14:21

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I have the following preferences in my preferences.xml: <SwitchPreference android:summary="Lorum ipsum dolor sit amet" android:title="Frobulate" /> <SeekBarPreference android:title="Mar...
Forras asked 5/7, 2018 at 14:56

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When I attempt to follow Android's Developer guides and tutorials for creating a Settings Activity using Preferences, I receive warnings such as: "The method addPreferencesFromResource(int) from t...

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I have CheckBoxPreference and 2 others: one is Edit Test Pref. and another is ListBox Pref. How I can enable list box pref and disable edit text pref. when CheckBoxPreference is turned on?
Madancy asked 13/10, 2011 at 8:44

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I have a preference screen (responder_generic.xml) as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > &...
Savina asked 29/3, 2013 at 17:47

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I am having a hard time making a Preference with Dialog, none of the methods suggested in the site works for me. So here is what I have first. In MainActivity I have this @Override public boolean ...
Newbold asked 18/8, 2014 at 11:24

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