Add preferences deprecated

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I just noticed that addPreferencesFromResource(); is deprecated in Android now. I tried looking for what I should use now and the developers site still has it this way. Does anyone know what I should use instead?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6822319/what-to-use-instead-of-addpreferencesfromresource-in-a-preferenceactivity — VM4, Dec 12 '13 at 19:11
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16374492/alternative-to-addpreferencesfromresource-as-its-deprecated — Naddy, Dec 12 '13 at 19:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '13 at 19:13

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As I pointed out in my comment, just use a Preference fragment

answered Dec 12 '13 at 19:13

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '13 at 19:17

PreferenceActivity is still fine, but you have to use a PreferenceFragment subclass to do it now. It looks something like this:

public class SetupActivity extends PreferenceActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(android.R.id.content, new MyPreferenceFragment()).commit();
    }

    public static class MyPreferenceFragment extends PreferenceFragment
    {
        @Override
        public void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState)
        {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            PreferenceManager.setDefaultValues(getActivity(), R.xml.preferences, false);
            addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
        }
    }

You then store the preferences in preferences.xml like this:

<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
  <EditTextPreference
    android:key="rest_server"
    android:defaultValue="@string/default_rest_server"
    android:summary="@string/rest_url_desc"
    android:title="@string/rest_url_title" />
  <EditTextPreference
    android:key="base_url"
    android:defaultValue="@string/default_base_url"
    android:summary="@string/base_url_desc"
    android:title="@string/base_url_title" />
</PreferenceScreen>

Add preferences deprecated

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