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Alex Volovoy
Alex Volovoy

Reputation: 68474

Remove/hide a preference from the screen

I have an activity which extends PreferenceActivity. I'm loading preferences from the xml file. But in some cases i need completely hide one of the preferences from the screen based on my app state. There is a setEnabled method, but it's not exactly what i want. I want to remove that preference from the screen completely. Is it possible ?

Upvotes: 148

Views: 83654

Answers (16)

ATL
ATL

Reputation: 444

Instead of doing this in onCreate in the settings activity:

getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(R.id.settings_container, new SettingsFragment()).commit();

You can initialize a global variable for the settings fragment and set it up like this:

settingsFragment = new SettingsFragment();
getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(R.id.settings_container, settingsFragment).commit();

Then you can do something like this further down in onCreate to set what should be hidden based on existing preferences, or to change what is hidden/visible based on conditions in your OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener:

settingsFragment.findPreference("setting key").setVisible(false);

Upvotes: 0

TwiXter
TwiXter

Reputation: 300

There is a simple workaround:

//In your Activity code after finding the preference to hide:
    if(pref!=null) {
        pref.setEnabled(false);
        pref.setSelectable(false);
        //Following line will replace the layout of your preference by an empty one
        pref.setLayoutResource(R.layout.preference_hidden);
    }

And create a preference_hidden layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"/>

Wherever is your Preference to hide (in a PreferenceGroup or at root) it will work!

Upvotes: 2

Saksham Khurana
Saksham Khurana

Reputation: 1020

If all you need is not to show the preference i.e. hide the preference then do the following

findPreference<Preference>("keyName").isVisible = false

code is in kotlin

Note : This is AndroidX preferences (don't know if same with hold with earlier Preference)

Upvotes: 0

RCB
RCB

Reputation: 560

If you're doing what I think you're trying to do (because I'm trying to do it now) it might be better to enable/disable the preference. Because removing it takes it out of the preference screen and you might not be able to add it back where you want it if you made the screen programmatically.

pref.setEnabled(false); pref.setEnabled(true);

although this might be deprecated. It works for the use case that I'm going through right now.

Upvotes: 0

Gustavo Eduardo Belduma
Gustavo Eduardo Belduma

Reputation: 3659

If you want to evaluate, and based on that mask, an alternative may be 

SwitchPreference autenticacionUsuario = 
    (SwitchPreference) findPreference("key_autenticacion_usuario");

final EditTextPreference Username = 
    (EditTextPreference) findPreference("key_username_mqtt");
final EditTextPreference Password = 
    (EditTextPreference) findPreference("key_password_mqtt");

if (!autenticacionUsuario.isChecked()) {
    PreferenceCategory preferenceCategory = 
        (PreferenceCategory) findPreference("category_mqtt");
    preferenceCategory.removePreference(Username);
    preferenceCategory.removePreference(Password);
}

All this must be within 

public static class PrefsFragment extends PreferenceFragment {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

Upvotes: 0

aaronvargas
aaronvargas

Reputation: 14162

If you are using PreferenceFragmentCompat you can set the visiblity in xml.

The preferences in your xml will be converted to AppCompat versions automatically. You can then use the 'app:isPreferenceVisible' attribute in your xml

preferences.xml

<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">

    <CheckBoxPreference
        android:defaultValue="false"
        android:key="show.navigation"
        android:title="Show navigation"
        app:isPreferenceVisible="false" />

...

The attribute is documented at https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/settings/components-and-attributes

Adding PreferenceFragmentCompat is documented at https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/settings/#inflate_the_hierarchy

Example:

public class MySettingsActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    public static class MySettingsFragment extends PreferenceFragmentCompat {
        @Override
        public void onCreatePreferences(Bundle savedInstanceState, String rootKey) {
            setPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences, rootKey);
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        getSupportFragmentManager()
                .beginTransaction()
                .replace(R.id.settings_container, new MySettingsFragment())
                .commit();
    }
}

Upvotes: 21

Kavi
Kavi

Reputation: 3880

If your Preference is within a PreferenceCategory, you have to do this:

XML:

<PreferenceCategory
    android:key="category_foo"
    android:title="foo">

    <CheckBoxPreference
        android:key="checkPref" />

Java:

CheckBoxPreference mCheckBoxPref = (CheckBoxPreference) findPreference("checkPref");
PreferenceCategory mCategory = (PreferenceCategory) findPreference("category_foo");
mCategory.removePreference(mCheckBoxPref);

Upvotes: 219

Tea
Tea

Reputation: 256

I recommend using v7 preference, it has setVisible() method. But I have not tried it yet. Accordingly you have to use PreferenceFragment instead of PreferenceActivity.

Upvotes: 7

user3165739
user3165739

Reputation: 166

In your XML file:

<PreferenceScreen 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:key="preferenceScreen">

    <PreferenceCategory
        android:key="personalisation"
        android:title="your title here">

        <ThemedPreference
            android:key="animation" />

</PreferenceScreen>

In your code:

PreferenceScreen pPreferenceScreen = (PreferenceScreen) findPreference("preferenceScreen");

PreferenceCategory pCategory = (PreferenceCategory) findPreference("personalisation");
ThemedPreference pThemePref = (ThemedPreference) findPreference("animation");

pPreferenceScreen.removePreference(pCategory); //remove category
pCategory.removePreference(pThemePref);   // remove preference

Upvotes: 8

android developer
android developer

Reputation: 115952

You can do this in 2 ways:

1.If you use support library, you can build a map of the tree of preferences and their parents, and then remove a preference by using its parent. Here's a function to generate such a map:

public static Map<Preference, PreferenceGroup> buildPreferenceParentTree(@NonNull final PreferenceScreen preferenceScreen) {
    final Map<Preference, PreferenceGroup> result = new HashMap<>();
    final Stack<PreferenceGroup> curParents = new Stack<>();
    curParents.add(preferenceScreen);
    while (!curParents.isEmpty()) {
        final PreferenceGroup parent = curParents.pop();
        final int childCount = parent.getPreferenceCount();
        for (int i = 0; i < childCount; ++i) {
            final Preference child = parent.getPreference(i);
            result.put(child, parent);
            if (child instanceof PreferenceGroup)
                curParents.push((PreferenceGroup) child);
        }
    }
    return result;
}
  1. If you use the new android-x preference API, you can just set the visibility, by using setVisible function on it.

Upvotes: 0

amukhachov
amukhachov

Reputation: 5900

Since Android API 26 getParent() method is available: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/preference/Preference.html#getParent()

Though you can do the following:

preference.getParent().removePreference(preference);

Upvotes: 3

Al Ro
Al Ro

Reputation: 511

In the XML file you can make a hidden preference by leaving the title and summary tags empty. 

<EditTextPreference
    android:defaultValue="toddlerCam"
    android:key="save_photo_dir"
/>

Upvotes: 3

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 42407

Here's a generic way to do this that works regardless of whether the preference is under a PreferenceCategory or PreferenceScreen.

private void removePreference(Preference preference) {
    PreferenceGroup parent = getParent(getPreferenceScreen(), preference);
    if (parent == null)
        throw new RuntimeException("Couldn't find preference");

    parent.removePreference(preference);
}

private PreferenceGroup getParent(PreferenceGroup groupToSearchIn, Preference preference) {
    for (int i = 0; i < groupToSearchIn.getPreferenceCount(); ++i) {
        Preference child = groupToSearchIn.getPreference(i);

        if (child == preference)
            return groupToSearchIn;

        if (child instanceof PreferenceGroup) {
            PreferenceGroup childGroup = (PreferenceGroup)child;
            PreferenceGroup result = getParent(childGroup, preference);
            if (result != null)
                return result;
        }
    }

    return null;
}

Upvotes: 2

James
James

Reputation: 371

If you want something that will dynamically change the prefs for example on a SwitchPreference, I have found the best way is to put all my sub options into two category containers. Initially you'll have everything shown, then you just remove the bits you don't want. The clever bit, is you just trigger recreate when something changes and then you don't have to manually create anything or worry about putting things back in in the correct order.

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
  PreferenceCategory prefCatOne= (PreferenceCategory)findPreference("prefCatOne");
  PreferenceCategory prefCatTwo= (PreferenceCategory)findPreference("prefCatTwo");
  SwitchPreference mySwitchPref= (SwitchPreference)findPreference("mySwitchPref");
  PreferenceScreen screen = getPreferenceScreen();
  if (mySwitchPref.isChecked()) {
    screen.removePreference(prefCatOne);
  } else {
    screen.removePreference(prefCatTwo);
  }
}

public void onSharedPreferenceChanged(SharedPreferences prefs, String key) {
    if (key.equals("mySwitchPref")) {
        this.recreate();
    }
}

The only downside that I can see with this, is there is a flash as the screen is recreated from scratch.

Upvotes: 9

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Reputation: 27105

In the case where the Preference is a direct child of the preference screen, here is some stand-alone code:

PreferenceScreen screen = getPreferenceScreen();
Preference pref = getPreferenceManager().findPreference("mypreference");
screen.removePreference(pref);

Upvotes: 54

David Hedlund
David Hedlund

Reputation: 129802

Yes, if you have a reference to both the Preference, and its parent (a PreferenceCategory, or PreferenceScreen)

myPreferenceScreen.removePreference(myPreference);

Upvotes: 179

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