android-preferences

I am developing an app where user needs to sign in to perform operations...but mostly on android handset ppl use "keep me signed in"...and in tht case I'll have to maintain the value of username and password within my app..should I use preferences, or SQLite Db or is there something else and how can I make it secure? Plz Help... Thanks in advance.. Yes, this is tricky on Android. You don't want to store the plaintext password in the preferences, because anyone with a rooted device will basically be displaying their password to the world. On the flip side, you can't use an encrypted password,

In my application I am using the new Action Bar Compatibility sample from Google (located at <sdk>/samples/android-<version>/ActionBarCompat ) which works great. The only problem I have is applying this to my PreferenceActivity in order to get a screen like the settings in the Android Market (see picture). To fill the ActionBar with icons, each Activity must extend the ActionBarActivity class. The problem is that my Activity already extends PreferenceActivity and in Java classes can not extend more than one class. There must be a way to get the ActionBar together with a PreferenceScreen . I

Hi I have an Android app that already uses a Navigation Drawer. My MainActivity extends Fragment Activity and my SettingFragment extends PreferenceFragment Settings Fragment : public class SettingsFragment extends PreferenceFragment { public SettingsFragment() {} @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); // Load the preferences from an XML resource addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.prefs); } } and my MainActivity : PreferenceFragment preferenceFragment = new SettingsFragment(); FragmentTransaction ft = getSupportFragmentManager()

I'm currently taking the "Developing Android Apps" Udacity course. In the "Lesson 3: New Activities and Intents > Use SharedPreferences" segment, the instructor asked me to dig around the Android Developer site for how to get the user preferences from SharedPreferences . However, I found it different between the official documentation and the course's solution. The Udacity course's solution says, to grab a SharedPreferences instance for the PreferenceActivity , you should call: SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(getActivity()); (where getActivity() is

i need to set the defult value for a ListPreference when the Activity starts. I've tried with ListPreference.setDefaultvalue("value"); but it makes the firts Entry of the List as default. I need it because i must check a condition and set as default the value which satisfies that condition, so I think it can't be done from the xml file (with android:defaultValue ) For example, suppose I have this array of values in the arrays.xml: <string-array name="opts"> <item>red</item> <item>green</item> <item>blue</item> </string-array> <string-array name="opts_values"> <item>1</item> <item>2</item>

I am trying to implement preferences with sub-screens using AppCompatActivity and support.v7.preference According to the docs, every PreferenceScreen within another PreferenceScreen functions as a sub-screen, and the framework will handle displaying it when clicked. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/settings.html#Subscreens <PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <!-- opens a subscreen of settings --> <PreferenceScreen android:key="button_voicemail_category_key" android:title="@string/voicemail" android:persistent="false"> <ListPreference

I have PreferenceScreen with some PreferenceCheckBoxes. I want to change the textColor and textSize for title and summary and the images for the CheckBox checked and uncheckes. So I am using android:layout to change this attributes. My ChceckBoxPreference: <CheckBoxPreference android:layout="@layout/preference_checkbox" android:key="temp" android:title="@string/title" android:summary="@string/summary" android:defaultValue="true" /> When I use android:widgetLayout it looks strange. And this is my preference_checkbox.xml: <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"