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I have tried different things for quite some hours now, but I cannot seem to wrap my head around how to update a TextView when a user inputs a new text through an EditTextPreference in Android.

I use a switch statement in the onSharedPreferenceChanged method, inside an anonymous listener class. However, when i set player1View.setText(value), nothing happens. Is there an easier way of accomplishing this task – namely updating the textView through user input?

Here is the bit of code I cannot make work:

public class SettingsActivity extends AppCompatActivity
{
        private TextView player1View;
        private TextView player2View;
        private SharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener listener;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    player1View = findViewById(R.id.player1);
    player2View = findViewById(R.id.player2);
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(android.R.id.content, new SettingsFragment()).commit();
    createListener();
}

private void createListener()
{
    listener = new SharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onSharedPreferenceChanged(SharedPreferences sharedPreferences, String key)
        {
            EditTextPreference etp = (EditTextPreference) sharedPreferences;
            String value = sharedPreferences.getString("player_one", "NULL");
            switch(key)
            {
                case "switch_setting1":
                    //Do something
                    break;
                case "player1_key":
                    player1View.setText(value);
                    break;
                case "player2_key":
                    player2View.setText(value);
                    break;
            }
        }
    };
    PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(getApplicationContext())
            .registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(listener);
}
}

The screenshots below should emphasize more clearly what i mean. The fields I want to change are the ones named "Player 1" and "Player 2", and to accomplish that the user inputs new names through settings as shown.

Screenshots from the Android Emulator

Phantômaxx
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Try maybe instead of:

String value = sharedPreferences.getString("player_one", "NULL");

This:

String value = sharedPreferences.getString("player_one", null);

or you might want to create two String variables(value, value2 for example), one for "player_one" and the other for "player_two" if you have forgot to add. I don't know exactly what you are trying to build.

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  • I'm trying to build a function which can handle all preferenceswitches, and change the appearance/behavior of the app accordingly. My problem is the changes the user applies through the settings now don't show at all in the app. E.g. "Player 1" does not change to "Joe" if Joe is input into the EditTextPreference field. – Torstein Norum Bugge Nov 27 '17 at 19:50