Together with the M release, there are new support libraries. One of them that seems to be very useful is the v7 Preference Support library.
It does not seem to have PreferenceActivity
or something similar, how do we integrate it to our app?
You have to extend AppCompatActivity
, which is required for fragment, and include a subclass of PreferenceFragmentCompat
. The abstract fragment requires to override one method, in which you should place your preference inflation logic. And last, your activity theme needs to specify a preferenceTheme
attribute.
Read the announcement here. With preference-v7 library you can replace PreferenceFragment
(API 11+) with PreferenceFragmentCompat
subclass, and SwitchPreference
(API 14+) with SwitchPreferenceCompat
and have your settings screen work from API 7.
Below is how I made it work:
SettingsActivity.java
public class SettingsActivity extends AppCompatActivity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_settings); } }
layout/activity_settings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" > <fragment android:name=".SettingsFragment" android:tag=".SettingsFragment" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" /> </FrameLayout>
SettingsFragment.java
public class SettingsFragment extends PreferenceFragmentCompat { @Override public void onCreatePreferences(Bundle bundle, String s) { addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences); } }
xml/preferences.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <android.support.v7.preference.PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent"> <android.support.v7.preference.PreferenceCategory ...> <android.support.v7.preference.ListPreference ... /> <android.support.v7.preference.SwitchPreferenceCompat ... /> ... </android.support.v7.preference.PreferenceCategory> ... </android.support.v7.preference.PreferenceScreen>
values/styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar"> <item name="preferenceTheme">@style/PreferenceThemeOverlay</item> ... </style>
preference-v7 default theme
<style name="PreferenceThemeOverlay"> <item name="preferenceScreenStyle">@style/Preference.PreferenceScreen</item> <item name="preferenceFragmentStyle">@style/PreferenceFragment</item> <item name="preferenceCategoryStyle">@style/Preference.Category</item> <item name="preferenceStyle">@style/Preference</item> <item name="preferenceInformationStyle">@style/Preference.Information</item> <item name="checkBoxPreferenceStyle">@style/Preference.CheckBoxPreference</item> <item name="switchPreferenceCompatStyle">@style/Preference.SwitchPreferenceCompat</item> <item name="dialogPreferenceStyle">@style/Preference.DialogPreference</item> <item name="editTextPreferenceStyle">@style/Preference.DialogPreference.EditTextPreference</item> <item name="preferenceFragmentListStyle">@style/PreferenceFragmentList</item> </style>
hidro's answer is right but one more thing here to notice:
Just use normal preference xml tags such as PreferenceScreen
instead of the full class name. The support library will convert them automatically.
Why: If you use the full class name the code suggestion and layout preview will not work properly.
So you should write xml like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <PreferenceCategory ...> <ListPreference ... /> <SwitchPreferenceCompat ... /> ... </PreferenceCategory> ... </PreferenceScreen>
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