I would like to make a custom layout for a Preference with just a very small change from the default layout.
Where can I get the default layout for a Preference so I can simply make my minor change without having to create a nearly identical layout from scratch?
I know, it's an old question but in case anyone is looking for this still (like me):
Here is the default preference layout for androidx
This folder contains all the widget xml (like SeekBar) as well.
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I'm new to Android development and wonder if there is an easy way to have a Preference (androidx.preference.Preference) with the widget appearing below the title? I am aware that layoutResource can be set to a custom layout, but I actually only need to change the widget (so I can set widgetLayoutResource instead of layoutResource) and I want it to appear below the title. If I change the whole layout to a custom one, I have to make it look like the other Preference layouts manually, which seems like an overkill given that I only want to change the title position.
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.
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.
I want to show two extra textfields when my application is shown in landscape. I know I can do this by copying my original layout to folder layout-land and just add 2 fields, but that way I need to maintain 2 versions of my layout file, the original one and the one copied to folder layout-land. What I actually want is just add two textfields without the need for maintaining 2 copies of a layout file. Can you do that ?
thanks, Steef
The idea which I've thought is may or may not be correct. My idea is to check the device orientation in class file and when the layout is landscape, just manipulate your layout or simply mean just add two text field at that time. Hopefully! it will work.
Happy Coding!!!
Im beginner but i might have some idea. If you dont want to have 2 layouts file, there is second options- make styles.xml for portrait and land and you can write style which set visibility. Try something like that.
This is not a directly programming related question but I don't know where else to ask and I am running out of ideas where to look.
Is there a way to hide a certain element from XML preview but still show it when the app is compiled? I don't mean the "visibility" attribute. If you set visibility to gone, the device also won't show that view. What I want is to simply hide a certain element from xml preview.
You can hide it using the visibility attribute on your xml layout file, and show it programmatically at runtime.
view.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
EDIT
Apparently there's a better way of doing this, in case you're using Android Studio, as of v0.2.11 you can take advantage of designtime layout attributes, for example:
Include this in your layout:
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
Change visibility attribute:
tools:visibility="invisible"
Full example and documentation available here.