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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 332

Howto make a layout similar to the ones in settings

I have an android Activity where I need to have the user enter some information. The data lends itself to something like a PreferenceView with ListPreferance elements. I am sure that I could use the preferences interfaces to get what I need, but it would by cludgy. Is there a way to get these same widgets in a regular view?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1090

Answers (2)

dmon
dmon

Reputation: 30168

I recently solved this same issue by following a similar approach to the one listed here. It boils down to providing a preference XML to your PreferenceActivity and then backing it with your own Model, instead of the default sharedPreferences. In the example he uses a database but if you don't have a backing database (or you don't want to commit whenever a setting is changed) you can use a Map for backing the Editor.

Upvotes: 1

Femi
Femi

Reputation: 64700

You want to look at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.layout.html: this has all the layouts that are publicly available.

If you're in the mood to dig into the platform bits, look in your <ANDROID SDK FOLDER>/platforms/<platform number>/data/res/layout for the preference*.xml files. This actually has all the individual widgets. You'd have a messy time digging under the hood to figure out which Views to bind callbacks to and to fetch values from, but you could assemble an Activity that looks astonishingly like a PreferencesView but uses whatever source data you choose.

Upvotes: 0

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