As described here, I am subclassing PreferenceFragment and displaying it inside an Activity. That document explains how to listen for preference changes here, but only if yo
The solution of antew works well, here you can see a full preference activity for Android v11 onwards:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.content.SharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.ListPreference;
import android.preference.PreferenceFragment;
public class UserPreferencesV11 extends Activity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Display the fragment as the main content.
getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(android.R.id.content,
new PrefsFragment()).commit();
}
public static class PrefsFragment extends PreferenceFragment implements OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Load the preferences from an XML resource
addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
// set texts correctly
onSharedPreferenceChanged(null, "");
}
@Override
public void onResume() {
super.onResume();
// Set up a listener whenever a key changes
getPreferenceScreen().getSharedPreferences().registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this);
}
@Override
public void onPause() {
super.onPause();
// Set up a listener whenever a key changes
getPreferenceScreen().getSharedPreferences().unregisterOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this);
}
@Override
public void onSharedPreferenceChanged(SharedPreferences sharedPreferences, String key) {
// just update all
ListPreference lp = (ListPreference) findPreference(PREF_YOUR_KEY);
lp.setSummary("dummy"); // required or will not update
lp.setSummary(getString(R.string.pref_yourKey) + ": %s");
}
}
}