Android :: Manually Set Preferences Being Overwritten By A Subclass Of PreferenceActivity
Mar 16, 2010
I am having a problem with an application I am in the middle of writing which is causing me some serious headaches.
The situation is this:
The application allows the user to configure several different kinds of information in several activities.
One of the activities, which is a subclass of Activity, takes data from the user and stores it in a shared preferences instance that I create manually and edit in code. This activity requires a complex screen layout that I do not believe would work well with a PreferenceActivity, hence me rolling my own in this case.
Another one of the activities, which is a subclass of PreferenceActivity, is a straight forward list of preferences, each with a list options - standard stuff.
I am finding that any data that I store from the first activity, my bespoke preference screen which manually adds the data using a StoredPreferences.Editor instance is overwritten once the user selects an option in my activity that extends PreferenceActivity.
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Jul 19, 2010
Jeff Sharkey in this post (http://goo.gl/G3wt) shows how to create save application preferences in database by hack on PreferenceActivity.
It said i can use a ContentProvider, too.
Can you give me an example on how to save preferences from PreferenceActivity to ContentProvider?
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Apr 22, 2010
I am using a PreferenceActivity to let the user set some values. I am feeding it the xml file with the defined preferences.
I have set all the android:defaultValue="" for them.
When I start my application, I need the preferences, or if they are not set yet manually, I want the default values:
CODE:.................
However, when android:defaultValue="true" I still get false. So, it looks like the defaultValues set in the XML are not used anywhere but when initializing the preferences-screen.
I don't want to hardcode the default values in the getBoolean() method. So, is there a way get the default-values with only defining these in 1 place?
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Mar 19, 2010
My application is used on multiple platforms so it saves it preferences to a file (rather than to the standard Android SharedPreferences).
Is there any easy of reusing the PreferenceActivity to save preferences to a file or is it a case of creating a whole new activity to do the job? If the latter is the case is there a layout I can use that will make the activity look like the normal preferences screen? PreferenceActivity uses com.android.internal.R.layout.preference_list_content but this doesn't appear to be available to apps for reuse.
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Apr 10, 2010
So I am modifying the Cube live wallpaper example. I have a class that extends PreferenceActivity, and I added the Activity in my manifest file. I keep getting ActivityNotFoundExceptions.
Here is my preference classcode...
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Jan 27, 2010
I am testing my application on a Nexus One and i have some problems. My theme is Light and when an inner sub PreferenceScreen is displayed, the window background becomes black instead of keeping the PreferenceActivity's one.
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Apr 3, 2009
I'm using a PreferenceActivity with a PreferenceScreen defined in a xml file. i want to make sure that the data set on a preference editor are valid (integer , integer in a range....)
So , i want to be able to intercept a click on a button of the EditTextPreference , check the validity of the data and if the data is incorect , display a message to the user and come back on the EditTextPreference.
What would be the best way to achieve that?
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Dec 12, 2009
I have a ListView that has some minor visual preferences that are set in a PreferenceScreen. These preferences are simple booleans to show or not to show some specific TextViews on each item in my ListView.
Anyhow, when these preferences are changed, I need to notify my ArrayAdapter that the data has changed in order to get the list redrawn. However, doing this via an OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener wouldn't really be optimal because there are several preferences that you can change, that would cause an unnecessary amount of updates to the ArrayAdapter.
So, to the question: How can I identify when my ListActivity has occurred on the screen after closing my PreferenceActivity, which I then could use to check for changes in the preferences, and only then notify the ArrayAdapter.
The ArrayAdapter being an inner class of my ListActivity, which is set as a ListAdapter.
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Jun 12, 2009
I have a PreferenceActivity building screen hierarchy from code, and I need to force display hierarchy change dynamically when one of SharedPreference value changed. I know this might be a kind of easy question, but I couldn't find answer anywhere in documentations or discussion.
My PreferenceActivity is forming like this. code...
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Aug 5, 2010
Currently, I'm using the following code across all of my activities in my app to store application level variables and carry values between activities..
prefs = this.getSharedPreferences("MyPrefs", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
I didn't have a PreferenceActivity prior to this, but now I do and I am looking to store a few user prefs from this new PreferenceActivity in the same sharedPreferences tag, "MyPrefs".
I know I can access the PreferenceActivity SharedPrefs from my activities via
prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
but I would like those values saved to my current sharedPreferences tag, "MyPrefs", but I'm not sure how to do this.
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May 15, 2009
I have a Activity and I have a class which extends this Activity. In this subclass I call:
startActivity(new Intent(this, CameraView.class))
Which should start the "CameraView" Activity. However, I always get this error:
CODE:...........
If it makes any difference the subclass creates a ListView and when a row of the ListView is clicked it calls startActivity();
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Nov 24, 2010
I have one subclass which extends Dialog class, it seems I can not use startActivity() function to start a new Activity in this subclass which extends Dialog class, how to resolve it?
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Nov 4, 2009
I have subclassed ArrayAdapter to set the color of text to RED if the string does not contain 100%, this has been added to a ListView. The problem is that some of the rows show as red when they contain 100%.
CODE:.....................
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Apr 12, 2010
I have a PreferenceActivity with a bunch of (Sub)PreferenceScreens. Each such (Sub)PreferenceScreen represents an account and has the account-username as its title.
CODE:................
As the user enters sub-PreferenceScreen, and edits the account user-name, I want the outer PreferenceScreen to update it's PreferenceScreen-title for the account in question.
I've tried to add...
CODE:.............
But the accScreen.setTitle does not seem to take effect on the outer PreferenceScreen. I've note that calling onContentChanged(); actually makes it work, but I realize that this is probably not the preferred way of doing it.
I suspect I should call postInvalidate() on some view somewhere, but I really can't figure out on what view and when to do it.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2396153/preferencescreen-androidsummary-update may be experiening the same problem as me.
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Aug 1, 2010
I don't think this problem is caused from my ListActivity subclass. I think it has something to do with with my BaseAdapter subclass:
package com.mohit.gtodo;
import com.mohit.gtodo.database.TasksDBAdapter;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.CheckBox;
import android.widget.CursorAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;............................
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Mar 19, 2010
From the documentation for android.app.Application:
"Base class for those who need to maintain global application state"
I am using my own subclass to maintain an object that I'm using to query a server. Also from the documentation:
"onTerminate() Called when the application is stopping."
However, onTerminate() in my class is never called. I press the back button while viewing my main activity, and everything seems to shut down. My main Activity's onDestroy() method is called and isFinishing() returns true, but my android.app.Application's onTerminate() method is never called.
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Jun 6, 2010
I'm subclassing Android's view class, but whenever I make an instance of the view from another class, the constructor never gets called (or so it seems). I've implemented both public myclass (Context context) and public myclass (Context context, AttributeSet, attrs) I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Do I need to override onDraw and onMeasure?
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Nov 16, 2010
I've found a example on this site on how to make a subclass of the application for android.
I've created this code
package mensand.test;
class TestApp extends android.app.Application { }
Added this line to the manifest
android:name="mensand.test.TestApp"
And when i run the app it's starts with a force close message.
When i remove the line from the manifest all runs ok
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Jun 2, 2010
I have a ListActivity which is being filled via an internal class "OrderAdapter" - while the list is being populated I set various OnClickListeners on the TextView elements which should open the same view with different parameter values per line. My problem I have is that no matter which entry in the list I click I will always get to a view with the same parameter ID (it's always the ID of the last line in the list) - even though the output of the ID varies if I output it to the TextView.
Here is the code of the internal class which populates the list in the ListActivity:
CODE:.............
Any ideas why it always opens the view with the same ID even though the TextView "tvCheatTitle" displays a different value in every line?
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I'm implementing custom widget exdending a View class. But I've found that View's protected field (e.g. mLeft) is not accessible from subClass
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May 23, 2010
I've run into an early problem with developing for android. I've made my own custom View (which works well). In the beginning i just added it to the layout programmatically, but i figured i could try putting it into the XML layout instead (for consistency).
So what i got is this:
main.xml:
CODE:..........
(Theres obviously more, but you get the point)
Now, this is the stacktrace:
CODE:...........
Why cant i cast my custom view? I need it to be that type since it has a few extra methods in it that i want to access. Should i restructure it and have another class handle the logic, and then just having the view being a view? I'd really like this to work though.
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I get a NullPointerException calling a Superclass Method in Subclass Inner Class Constructor... What's the Deal?
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CODE:...................
After I instantiate the object in the constructor, I get a runtime error when I try to assign a value in the inner class with a superclass method.
Can you not call superclass methods in the subclass constructor?
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2) I'd like to define another file for global configuration preferences of my app.
What is the best way to manage my app config preferences? Should I create another XML file with config values or should I specify those config values in strings.xml? What is the best practice for managing config preferences?
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Do static variables of an ApplicationContext subclass left untouched when the process is killed?
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Is there a way to use ListAdapter in preferences screen ? or i must use only chekboxpreference, textpreferences, etc....
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Can any body know how we can use the preference & widgets together .
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Cheersss, Armond
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