android-preferences

I've made a SwitchPreference for my app's preferences . The problem is that the SwitchPreference is not showing animation when I'm switching between on & off, rather, it is switching with a sudden jerk. Here's preferences.xml file's code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <SwitchPreference android:id="@+id/notification" android:key="notification" android:title="@string/notification" android:defaultValue="true"/> </PreferenceScreen> I'm a beginner, so please cooperate & let me know what's wrong here. Thanks in

I seem to be having trouble reading preferences from my AppWidgetProvider class. My code works in an Activity, but it does not in an AppWidgetProvider. Here is the code I am using to read back a boolean: SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(PREFS_NAME, 0); boolean autoreplyon = settings.getBoolean("autoreplyon", false); However, I get the "The method getSharedPreferences(String, int) is undefined for the type widget" error (widget is the name of my AppWidgetProvider class). Thanks in advance for any suggestions! getSharedPreferences() , should you choose to use it, is only

New to Android, I have some code when the user changes a preference I update the Summary field in the UI preference to be the value they entered. However, when the preference activity is created I'd like to set the Summary fields to be the values in the corresponding preferences. Please advise. Thanks. public class MyPreferenceActivity extends PreferenceActivity implements OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener { protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preference); SharedPreferences sp = getPreferenceScreen()

Is it somehow possible to include one preferences.xml into another, like it can be done for layouts with the <include /> tag? Let's say: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <PreferenceScreen android:title="@string/pref_group_title_visual"> <include preferences_filename="xml/pref_visual"/> </PreferenceScreen> ... Solution here it is to inflate both preference files from PreferencesActivity. For example: addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.options); addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.additional_options); The solution

Is there a way to dynamically show and hide preferences? In my case, I have a checkbox preference that would disable or enable one of 2 preference groups ("with-" and "without-handicap" groups). While this would be the ideal GUI in a desktop environment, the "with-handicap" takes up nearly the whole screen, while the other, "without-handicap" takes up only a small portion of the screen. Rather than showing both groups at the same time, I'd like to show only one of them at a time, and dynamically show or hide the 2 groups when the checkbox changes. Is there a way to do this? dhaag23 From a

I was trying to implement preferences for an AppCompat app, using support.v7.preference. It took me a couple of days to fiddle through it, since support.v7.preference has some significant differences to the native preferences... which isn't too bad once you know, but unfortunately there's little documentation out there. I thought I'd share my findings so others don't have to go through the same pain. So... question: How do you best implement Preferences for AppCompat apps (with PreferenceFragment and AppCompatAcitivity being incompatible)? Here are a couple of related questions: Preference sub