Android :: Display Current Value Of XML ListPreference
Mar 6, 2010
I have an XML preferences screen which is handled by addPreferencesFromResource. On it, there is a ListPreference, for which I want the summary to contain the current value of that preference. I think this would be a common requirement, as otherwise you could not see the present value of the preference without expending a click. I read that the summary field supports resource references, and I see that I can refer to preferences as android:summary="@+preference/prefname" in my ListPreference. Clearly this is why resource references would be supported in this field. However, when I try this, instead of the present value of prefname, the text "false" appears as the summary. Does anybody know how to display a current value without taking the seemingly ridiculous step of rewriting the entire (large) preference screen in Java?
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Feb 10, 2009
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).
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I'm using listpreference in my android app and getting my key values and all is well and works good (now that you guys have helped me) BUT - when my listpreference menus popup, they only contain a cancel button. Let's say the user is choosing between red, blue, and green. When the listpreference dialog first pops-up, the dialog only shows a cancel button. Because of that, the dialog disappears as soon as the user selects their choice. I would like it so that when the user chooses their setting, they see the radio button get highlighted and then they go ahead and click the ok button...but I don't have an ok button and can't figure out why.
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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 i = 0; i < count; i++) {
entries[i] = items.get(i).toString();
entryValues[i] = String.valueOf(i);
}
langPref.setEntries(entries);
langPref.setEntryValues(entryValues);
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May 28, 2010
I want to put a ListPreference in my preference screen. But all the examples I have found in Internet the content are loaded out of a xml and I need that de options in the ListPreference are dynamic and not previously defined (in a xml).
I have mi preferences.xml in the folder xml/ of my project;
this is the code of preferences.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android
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I'm trying to set a defaultValue to a ListPreference item. Here is an sample of my preference.xml file:
<ListPreference android:key="notification_delai"
android:title="@string/settings_push_delai"
android:entries="@array/settings_push_delai_human_value"
android:entryValues="@array/settings_push_delai_phone_value"
android:defaultValue="????">
</ListPreference>
The two arrays:
<string-array name="settings_push_delai_human_value">
<item>every 5 minutes</item>
<item>every 10 minutes</item>
<item>every 15 minutes</item>
</string-array>.............
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Jan 17, 2010
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But when I click the list item to edit it, i get an empty dialog (Title and button is shown right and with the text I set in the xml- file, but no list, screenshot: http://i49.tinypic.com/2501p55.png ). I can't see any problem with the program code (which isn't many lines..) or the xml (the arrays are generated by the Android utils in Eclipse and the preferences is a mix of auto and manual). You can see both Java code and XML here: http://pastebin.com/m4c52c3a2 (titles etc in Swedish..) (I've also tried a EditTextPreference item, which seemed to work fine..) I have also looked at the log/output using adb, and can't see any problems there either, so I have no idea onto how to solve this.
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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's my OnClick code:
case R.id.green:
SharedPreferences prefs=PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
greensound = prefs.getString("greensound", "gsone");
if (greensound == "gsone") {
mSoundManager.playSound(1);
} else if (greensound == "gstwo") {...................
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Oct 12, 2010
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 statment when I change it everytime, even like above when I changed the ListPreference and the value was "bluesky" it still failed to execute the correct if statement. Here's the code I use to check the value of the ListPreference in the onResume():
SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this)
String backgroundPref = prefs.getString("backgroundPref", "");
if(backgroundPref == "bluesky"){
mainLayout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.bluesky);
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Blue Sky", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}else if(backgroundPref == "sky"){
mainLayout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.sky);
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Sky", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}else{
mainLayout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.sunsetscene);
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Sunset Scene", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
The Toasts are there so I can double check which statement gets executed, and it always seems to be the else one. Am I having a bad day and getting something wrong?
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Aug 28, 2010
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's my OnClick code:................
I also tried removing the default value here it didnt seem to change anything but, should it be removed?
Here's my Settings.java:
package com.my.app;
CODE:...........
And here's my array's if that will help at all:
CODE:............
Here's a logcat that kinda looked possibly related:
CODE:..........
For those that might ask here's my DDMS > File Explorer > Data > Data > packageName > SharedPreferences This is what was in there:
com.my.app_preferences.xml:
CODE:...................
This all really confuses me more because...It looks like greensound does == gsone so.... I don't understand whats wrong its not even playing the default sound. and yes i've tested all this code without the listpreference code and they work great. I'm not sure what's wrong?
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
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