PreferenceActivity: save value as integer

Question

Using a simple EditTextPreference in my preferences activity:

Answer 1

Even though an Answer has been parked accepted I would like to share one more shorter way to achieve this :

SharedPreferences preferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
int value = Integer.parseInt(preferences.getString("SomeKey", "-1"));

Since you have already set that only numbers can be entered this won't through any exception. yet to complete my answer :