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PreferenceActivity in Android is a base class for an activity to show a hierarchy of preferences to the user

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Using non-default preferences in PreferenceActivity

Using PreferenceActivity, Android automatically saves simple preferences such as checkboxes being checked etc. I have a couple of questions: 1 - where do these preferences get saved? Is it the same preferences file that…
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Get the Ringtone title from RingtonePreference

I have a RingtonePreference that is used to select a ringtone that is broadcasted to a receiver used in an Alarm application. I would like to display the title (the titles displayed in the list you see when you choose the ringtone) of the selected…
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PreferenceFragment crashing, Null object Reference

I have a simple ActionBarActivity which holds a PreferenceFragment as follows: import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.preference.PreferenceFragment; public class SettingsActivity extends Activity { …
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Android get view of Preference in PreferenceActivity

I would like to get View instance that is used to display specific Preference in my PreferenceActivity, so i can modify its properties, for example: public class SettingsActivity extends PreferenceActivity { public void onCreate(Bundle…
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SharedPreferences will not save/load in PreferenceActivity

EDIT: The problem described below was due to a very peculiar device issue not caused by any coding-related problem. I have a preferenceActivity in which I have many checkBoxPreferences. The checkBoxPreference is suppose to save the the default…
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Building Compatibility PreferenceFragment on Android

My android application is using the compatibility library quite heavily (Loaders in particular). I need to be able to use compatibility components everywhere, including my PreferenceActivity. Sadly, the support library does not include a…
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How to get elements(findViewById) for a layout which is dynamically loaded(setView) in a dialog?

I need to get the EditText that's defined in an xml layout which is dynamically loaded as a view in a preference dialog i.e. : public class ReportBugPreference extends EditTextPreference { @Override protected void…
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add action bar with back button in preference activity

Here is my preference activity: package com.example.hms.test; import android.os.Bundle; import android.preference.PreferenceActivity; public class PrefsActivity extends PreferenceActivity { public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { …
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How to handle long text in preferences on Android?

Background I'm making an app that has some settings, and I want to use the built in PreferenceActivity or PreferenceFragment for the job The problem Some of the preferences have a long title which I cannot shorten, plus I think that if I ever…
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How do I create one Preference with an EditTextPreference and a Togglebutton?

What I'm trying to implement is basically and exact replica of the image below (the preferences that I've squared). Pressing anything to the left of the preference should open up a dialog. Pressing the togglebutton will disable/enable whatever I'm…
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Dynamically create CheckBoxPreferences

I am currently building out a list of rows with checkboxes dynamically using content from a web service. However, this ListView will need to do pretty much what a PreferenceActivity would accomplish. I don't know the number of rows as the content…
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Show up-Button in actionBar in subscreen preferences

I've implemented my preferences like shown in the official guidelines. I have a PreferenceActivity which creates the PreferenceFragment like this: @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { …
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Android: Reverse Preference dependencies

Possible Duplicate: How to do opposite of of preference attribute android:dependency? In a PreferenceActivity, we can define Preferences with XML code. One of these is: android:dependency This can be used to set a preference to only be sensitive…
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AppCompatPreferenceActivity strange padding on left and right in Android 4.4

I have an SettingsActivity extending AppCompatPreferenceActivity. my pref_headers.xml looks like this:
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How to use PreferenceScreen in Android

i want use PreferenceScreen for setting page, i know use EditTextPreferences and use this text. but i don't know other Objects, for example : i don't know change text color from ListPreference, or i don't know show/hide text from CheckBoxPreference.…
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