Android Lollipop preference

Question

Is there an easy way to create a preference like the system preferences in Lollipop?

My previous app had headers and fragments, but I want to use the AppCompat Toolbar and the PreferenceActivity (onBuildHeaders) can't use the new Toolbar. That's why I'm searching for a complete redesign of my preferences.

I want to do this:

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Has someone any tutorial for this?

@DerGolem I added a screenshot, what I want be able to create... — mars3142, Nov 19 '14 at 14:54

longkai · Answer 1 · 2015-04-27T09:47:20.220

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It' s simple. Just apply the Theme.AppCompat.xxx to your activity and put your PreferenceFragment in that activity if you use the Api level >= 11.

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for the lastest supoort libary appcompat-v7, google provides AppCompatDelegate to do the trick, here is the sample code from google.

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answered Nov 19 '14 at 16:19

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And how about headers? Everyone is talking about PreferenceFragments, but I need header xml files. This file can't be used in a Fragment. The header file was used to do the two pane view. – mars3142 Nov 19 '14 at 16:23
well, forgive my carefulness when reading your question, I thought you just need that toolbar... take a look at this, i suppose it' s helpful. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26564400/creating-a-preference-screen-with-support-v21-toolbar/26564401#26564401 – longkai Nov 19 '14 at 19:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 26 '15 at 09:45

Try out my library: https://github.com/AndroidDeveloperLB/MaterialPreferenceLibrary .

It lacks some of the stuff of the original API, but it's a good start... The hard part is to make it use a RecyclerView instead of a ListView, so that you could have multiple preferences on the same row. Then you'd need to also filter items as you type.

Android Lollipop preference

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