With Android x the DialogPreference is moved to DialogPreferenceCompat . As there are many ways to make a custom layout in the Preference settings .
I am looking for more clean and better way to make a custom layout that when clicked opens the Custom Number Picker Dialog Box. I would like to make a custom layout with a button .
The issue right now I am facing is there is no onCreateDialog override method in DialogPreference and I am not sure how to make the changes. It looks like due to DialogPreferenceCompat used in android x my most of the code is broken.
How can I make the correct code changes? There are many ways to write the Custom Preference layout but I don't know which one is good one.
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I'm beginner in android , now I'm building an android application. .
I'm working in setting screen now and in my research i have seen so many applications that is using preference activity for the settings.So i started my setting page using preference activity. But in my case , my application settings have some options that don't need to save as preference. And that are also connecting with server and the EditTextPreference dialog will be also different. So i got confused in this case.
So what should i do? Do i have to change this to a LinearLayout?
Please help
The preference compat fragment and activity is there to make it simple to create an interface and save it to SharePreference. but you can't change much of the thing. I believe the sharepreference compat and component is itself has the listener when is changing. So let it save to preference even if you don't need it probably Ok. Also if your mockup or design for EditTextPreference is look different from native android then You can try use theme and style to change the look and feel of EditText just for preference only.
Also, You probably can use scrollview + constrainlayout or linearlayout to build it but you're make extra work such as save/load to/from preference, UI like sub preference ...etc. I would sugguest to go with Theme and Style but if your UI is completely different and can't be adapted with Preference then it left no choice. Constraint Layout would be better than LinearLayout.
The PreferenceFragment attached to a preference activity is the ideal way to have a settings screen. You will however need to implement the PreferenceChangeListener in the PreferenceFragment to listen for preference changes and save the changes. If you have options that do not need to be saved you can still add them to the xml and make them disabled by setting android:enabled = false.
EditTextPreferences can have their own UI feel by using the android:theme = #style/yourstyle and specifying the style you want in your styles.xml file
Goodluck.
How can i make a custom pop up menu something like this in android ! Iam developing a reader application , suggest me something !
Check this out please :
http://cdn.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/image158.png?56dd13
Something same like this ! in android Play Books App also we have the same thing , i want to develop this in android , how can i make it and i want that in my action bar .
I think it may help you, create simple layout xml having same view as per your requirement and and use these Activity Theme as Dialog so it appears just you want.
But Please make sure you make it's Layout width and height as wrap_content not match_content or fill_content.
Let me try to make my question much clearer here. Supposed I have a custom tab created by using buttons and images in XML layout and it looks like this.
Each of these buttons, should call a class. Normally, Intent is used to call new class when onClick. But the whole layout would be redrawn when I call any of the classes via Intent.
Intent intent1 = new Intent(TabBar.this, Favourites.class);
startActivity(intent1);
I tried using TabHost and it worked, but my project requires me to use a custom tab bar.
I also tried the solution to this Dynamically change view inside view in Android, which is similar to what I wanted, (switching layouts and maintaining the tab bar below it), which worked as well.
My goal is to maintain the custom tab that I have, and change the classes instead of layout without redrawing the custom tab bar everytime I click on every buttons. With classes, I can run different functions and call different activities.
I googled a lot on this but couldn't seem to find a solution or reference. Can somebody guide me? Thanks in advance.
Update :
I'm new in Android, and after attempting many times, I decided to try out codes from AdilSoomro to achieve what I wanted, http://adilsoomro.blogspot.com/2011/06/iphone-like-tabs-in-android.html which is to create custom tabs that looks like iPhone tabs. However, this project uses TabActivity that is now deprecated in Android 4.1. I attempted to change it to FragmentActivity after referring to other sources that uses Fragments for tabs.
http://android.codeandmagic.org/2011/07/android-tabs-with-fragments/
http://thepseudocoder.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/android-tabs-the-fragment-way/
I managed to create it using FragmentActivity and here is where you can refer to them :
How to use custom iPhone tab in FragmentActivity?
You can use TabHost control to achieve this. Go through this post
It explains all the possibilities. It also includes using custom tab bar defined in the xml file.
One of the way to achieve this is create footer and use it in all your activity. Like This. And Let me know its useful as per your requirement or not.
I took a look at the preference activity that Android use for settings. i'm looking for something like UISwitch as shown in below image, does Android have one like this.
I can see the nearest control on Android preference settings is "list preference"
There is ToggleButton and CompoundButton (one extends the other).
But those have a different default display widget then what you are looking for. However either could be used along with your own drawable resources to create the "switch" type control that you are after.
But by default no the system does not include a widget that serves this function and looks the way you want it to.
No, In Android its called ToggleButton.
But still it can be developed by extending RadioButton placed in RadioGroup and giving its UI way you wanted.
I want to create a layout like the below picture. How can I set the drop-down like this with cancel option. I am using spinner to show the drop-down but cannot set the layout like this.
Can anyone help me to create a drop-down like this. I also want to create an expand button for a list item which will open the content in a new page. My aim is to set all the available settings in a single page.
Then use PreferenceActivity. In fact, that's a standard preference screen.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/preference/PreferenceScreen.html
http://jetpad.org/2011/01/creating-a-preference-activity-in-android/
You can take a look at the API Demo app which is in the Android SDK. There you can learn how to create this kind of screens (either from XML or code). It has many advantages... for instance, you won't have to worry about persisting the settings... the OS will do that for you.