I saw in a lot of places that it's a problem to copy the SharedPreferences file to the sd card because every manufacturer place it somewhere else. I want to backup on the sd card no matter where i...

A set of questions about SharedPreferences that I was looking for: What, Why, When? How does it work inside? The Best Practice to use it? Only some of those question were answered here. That's ...

Is it possible to create an individual preference in an PreferenceScreen? I would like to code color settings like that: I know that choosing the color is easy realizable with the ListPreferen...

In my app using support library v7 I want to add a preference screen. Since Google provides absolutely no documentation on that subject I have looked up a post found elsewhere here on Stack Overflo...

I'm trying to open programatically a ListPreference, which exist inside PreferenceCategory. The XML structure is something like: <PreferenceScreen android:key="pref_screen" > <Prefere...

I am working on adding ripple effect when the preference is touched (selected). I have customized my preference by extending the ListPreference. I have tried to set the ripple effect programmatical...

I'm using listpreference in my android app and getting my key values and all is well and works good (now that you guys have helped me) BUT - when my listpreference menus popup, they only contain a ...

I'm trying to use the new Preference v14 Support library. To give the preferences a material style, I use the following style on my Activity: <style name="PreferenceTheme" parent="@style/Theme....

A few days ago Google introduced the Preference Support Library (Link). I've just tried to implement it in my application though it seems like it's not working with SwitchPreferences which is weird...

I'm using a theme to customize the look and feel of a settings dialog. The preferences are defined in XML and inflated by a PreferenceFragment. The way of attaching the fragment is basically as des...

What is the best way to bring Material design to the preferences using AppCompat? I've been reading some questions and the main points seem to be: The official guidelines suggest avoiding Prefere...

I am new to Android and I am kind of stuck for 6 hours straight. The problem is I don't know the name of the preferences file, and I need to get values from preferences file. I am using Android St...

When running "Analyze/Inspect Code" in Android Studio 1.2.2 with the default settings on below code: public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedIn...

I keep seeing the tutorial on adding your own seekbar preference, but its not in my actual prefs.xml. Is there any way to have one in my main prefs screen or will I have to separate it.

I have prepared a simple test project for my question at GitHub. In my project there is a custom inline SeekBarPreference, which mostly works fine (its summary is updated when seekbar is being dra...

As I was following an old tutorial (Créez des applications pour Android -> openclassroom) I got stuck on this deprecated method addPreferencesFromResource(int id) from the PreferenceActivity class....

how to get list of all application preferences for application, 1. I am saving shared preference in this manner 2. I know that they are in data/data/app_packagename/shared_prefs 3. THE PROBL...

I'm using CheckboxPreference in a PreferenceActivity and an AppCompat theme from the v21 support library. As you already know, with this latest library widgets like checkboxes, editTexts, radio but...

I am getting error when i try to compile my project: "The method add(int, Fragment) in the type FragmentTransaction is not applicable for the arguments (int, FragmentPreferences)". As far as i kn...

I am now creating a preference page for my app After API-14, switchpreference is available. and i would like to use it to replace checkboxpreference on API14+ devices It is easy to use res/xml an...

I have a couple of custom DialogPreference implementations floating around, such as this one: package apt.tutorial; import android.content.Context; import android.content.res.TypedArray; import a...

I want to open some preferences (which are made by extending DialogPreference) on first app startup. Also, these preferences are used as usual preferences. Is there a way of accomplishing this? E...

In my app I have a PreferenceScreen which looks like this: <PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <CheckBoxPreference android:key="state" androi...

I have a ListPreference: <ListPreference android:entries="@array/frequencies" android:entryValues="@array/frequencies_values" android:key="pref_key_frequencies" android:summary="@string/f...

My app has custom preference with custom layout and after trying my app on android 5, I noticed that my custom preferences look different (font size, color, padding) than the others. So I thought i...