Alternatives to PreferenceFragment with android-support-v4

Question

I\'ve come to a sudden halt in the development of my app as I realized that PreferenceFragments weren\'t supported in this library. Are there any alternatives that a rookie

Answer 1

Preferences Support Library: Preference Fragments for API 7+, no matter the Activity

A simple implementation would include a PreferenceFragmentCompat such as:

public class PreferencesFragment extends PreferenceFragmentCompat {
    @Override
    public void onCreatePreferences(Bundle savedInstanceState, String rootKey) {
        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
    }
}

You’ll also need to set preferenceTheme in your theme:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
  <item name="preferenceTheme">@style/PreferenceThemeOverlay</item>
</style>

And add this in dependencies: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html

com.android.support:preference-v14:23.1.0

Answer 2

You can use my own PreferenceFragment.

It's simple and I had no issues with it so far. I think you can only display one of them at a time in a single Activity, which should be OK.

Answer 3

You can extend from PreferenceActivity instead, and if you wish to have an ActionBar, you can add it using a Toolbar as being above the ListView used for the preferences.

This can be done by using a vertical LinearLayout which holds the Toolbar and a ListView with android:id="@android:id/list" .

If you wish, you can see my solution here .

Answer 4

Important Update: The latest revision of the v7 support library now has a native PreferenceFragmentCompat.

I am using this library, which has an AAR in mavenCentral so you can easily include it if you are using Gradle.

compile 'com.github.machinarius:preferencefragment:0.1.1'

Answer 5

UPDATE - 6/11/2015

Support-v7 library now includes PreferenceFragmentCompat. So it will be a better idea to use it.

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Add the following project as a library project to your application.

https://github.com/kolavar/android-support-v4-preferencefragment

You can keep everything including your fragment transaction as it is. When importing the PreferenceFragment class, make sure the correct import header is user.

import android.support.v4.preference.PreferenceFragment;

instead of

import android.preference.PreferenceFragment;

Answer 6

I know this is an old question, but you can now use PreferenceFragmentCompat from com.android.support:preference-v7:23.3.0