Skip the headers in PreferenceActivity when there's only one header

Question

I added preference-headers to my app so that the preference screen would not look broken on Honeycomb and tablet sized ICS. However, I only have one header at the moment so

Answer 1

You can skip the headers by setting one of your PreferenceFragments as default.

When you take a look at the PreferenceActivity.java source, you will find these two extras:

/**
 * When starting this activity, the invoking Intent can contain this extra
 * string to specify which fragment should be initially displayed.
 */
public static final String EXTRA_SHOW_FRAGMENT = ":android:show_fragment";

/**
 * When starting this activity, the invoking Intent can contain this extra
 * boolean that the header list should not be displayed.  This is most often
 * used in conjunction with {@link #EXTRA_SHOW_FRAGMENT} to launch
 * the activity to display a specific fragment that the user has navigated
 * to.
 */
public static final String EXTRA_NO_HEADERS = ":android:no_headers";

Now simply add these two extras to the intent which is invoking your PrefenceActivity and specify the PreferenceFragment which should be shown by default as follows:

Intent intent = new Intent( this, Preferences.class );
intent.putExtra( PreferenceActivity.EXTRA_SHOW_FRAGMENT, PreferencesFragment.class.getName() );
intent.putExtra( PreferenceActivity.EXTRA_NO_HEADERS, true );