Custom SwitchPreference in Android

Question

How to set a custom style or other background selector drawable for the SwitchPreference widget in Android?

(Note: not the regular Switch

Answer 1

One way of doing this is to subclass the SwitchPreference and override the onBindView method. In doing so, you'll want to still call super.onBindView(view) in that method, but then find the Switch in the child views and style it as appropriate:

package com.example;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;
import android.preference.SwitchPreference;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Switch;

import com.example.R;


public class CustomSwitchPreference extends SwitchPreference {

    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    public CustomSwitchPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
    }

    public CustomSwitchPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    }

    public CustomSwitchPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public CustomSwitchPreference(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onBindView(View view) {

        super.onBindView(view);
        Switch theSwitch = findSwitchInChildviews((ViewGroup) view);
        if (theSwitch!=null) {
            //do styling here
            theSwitch.setThumbResource(R.drawable.new_thumb_resource);
        }

    }

    private Switch findSwitchInChildviews(ViewGroup view) {
        for (int i=0;i