Android :: Want More Text In Preference Summary / Get That?
Aug 9, 2009It seems Preference summary text has a limit of about 2 lines, but I want more. How can I do that?

It seems Preference summary text has a limit of about 2 lines, but I want more. How can I do that?
This must come up very often. When the user is editing preferences in an Android app, I'd like them to be able to see the currently set value of the preference in the Preference summary.
Example: if I have a Preference setting for "Discard old messages" that specifies the number of days after which messages need to be cleaned up. In the PreferenceActivity I'd like the user to see:
"Discard old messages" <- title
"Clean up messages after x days" <- summary where x is the current Preference value
Extra credit: make this reusable, so I can easily apply it to all my preferences regardless of their type (so that it work with EditTextPreference, ListPreference etc. with minimal amount of coding).
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().getSharedPreferences();
sp.registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this);
} public void onSharedPreferenceChanged(SharedPreferences sharedPreferences, String key) { Preference pref = findPreference(key); if (pref instanceof EditTextPreference) { EditTextPreference etp = (EditTextPreference) pref; pref.setSummary(etp.getText());
} } }
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