PreferenceActivity: save value as integer

Question

Using a simple EditTextPreference in my preferences activity:

Answer 1

Even if you set android:numeric="integer" it'll be text preference - as its name suggest. You could easily convert string value to int using Integer.valueOf(). Also you could overwrite PreferenceActivity to do conversion automatically on exit.

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I think the best solution is to write simple method to get this value from preferences. Something like:

public static int getSomePref(Context context) {
    SharedPreferences prefs =
        PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);
    String value = prefs.getString("SomeKey", null);
    return value == null ? -1 : Integer.valueOf(value);
}

Then you could very easily use it from your code.