I am resuing ListPreference for a setting which I store in the database. I do not want it stored in the preference file. How can I reuse ListPreference in such way that it does NOT save to SharedPreference file? ...
Hi, i have a strange (?) error in my android application. I have defined some arrays in values/arrays.xml the following way: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <array name="perimeter"> <item>10 miles</item> <item>20 miles</item> <item>30 miles</item> </array> <array name="regvalues">...
I have 2 prefs - a song title and the audio state(mute or volume) that I want to store in the same key. This works for the clicks and the only problem I have is resetting the summary on onSharedPreferencesChanged I get errors with this. PreferenceScreen musicPrefScreen = (PreferenceScreen)getPreferenceScreen ().findPreference("...
I know how to change the value of a CheckBoxPreference, but I can't get it to work for a ListPreference. Here is how my preference screen is built: one CheckBox for the default A ListPreference to select a color other than the default. The ListPreference is defined with the key "titleColor", as follows : CharSequence[] entries = ...
I am using preference concept (listpreference) in my application. I want to do something when i choose particular option from list So plese tell me how is it possible? ...
Is there a way to use a custom row for the ListPreference in the Android preference screen? Currently I populate the ListPreference like this, but I need more info (description) shown in the List int count = items.size(); CharSequence[] entries = new CharSequence[count]; CharSequence[] entryValues = new CharSequence[count]; for (int ...
In Android, I have been attempting to add functionality to a multiple choice list that pops up in a dialog. (see http://blog.350nice.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/listpreferencemultiselect.java) The issue is that I want to limit the number of choices to 3. Say I have a list of US States in my list, and I only want someones 3 favor...
Could someone maybe tell me what i'm doing wrong? I'm betting im missing one small thing. I've looked on the developer site and i've read some tutorials and i'm just not seeing what i did wrong. I'm trying to use a ListPreference to decide which sound to play on a button click. I have this at the top: public String greensound; Here'...
Could someone maybe tell me what i'm doing wrong? I'm betting im missing one small thing. I've looked on the developer site and i've read some tutorials and i'm just not seeing what i did wrong. I'm trying to use a ListPreference to decide which sound to play on a button click. I have this at the top: public String greensound; Here'...
Any idea on implementing a multi-select (check boxes) ListPreference on Android? Would I have to extend the ListPreference? Is there any classes already documented to do this? Thanks ...
Im asking this because im trying to automatically change the locale language settings from a listpreference. And if i choose the language option in the listpreference window the preferenceActivity doesnt seem to go int the onPause method. I was wondering how could i imediately alter the language in this preferenceActivity, do i need to r...
The preference activity gets inflated by invoking addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences); and here are the preferences.xml: <PreferenceCategory android:title="@string/pref_categ_update_label"> <ListPreference android:title="@string/pref_label" android:key="update_interval" android:entries="@array/up...
I don't understand what's going on here. I have a ListPreference with the entries and entryValues correctly set. When I go in the prefernces activity and change the value it successfully works (I added a Toast to output the value after changing the option to test). But when I do the following to compare it, it always executes the else ...
Hello, I've created a ListPreference in PreferenceActivity and it works good: user clicks on the Preference item a list dialog opens (retrieves listItems and their values from array.xml) if the user selects one of the list items it saves his selection (which I can later retrieve). My question is: how can I preform a method the secon...