Nested preferences.xml

Question

Is it somehow possible to include one preferences.xml into another, like it can be done for layouts with the tag?

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Answer 1

The solution soul shows works. It can be expanded to only show preferences if you're the developer using an unsigned version of the app ;)

addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.options);
addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.additional_options);
if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
    addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.developer_options);
}

I created a blog post regarding this issue and have a complete working code example available for download. http://androidfu.blogspot.com/2012/05/developer-debug-with-nested-preferences.html