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v7 Preference Support Library: Is one of the packages that added by google in order to provide better backwards compatibility for developers. This package introduced on August 2015.

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PreferenceFragmentCompat requires preferenceTheme to be set

With the new PreferenceFragmentCompat from the v7 Preference Support Library: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html#v7-preference, I get this error E java.lang.IllegalStateException: Must specify preferenceTheme in…
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Installing a support library for PreferenceFragmentCompat

I'm new to Android Studio and a total beginner at Android programming in general. I looked and looked and I couldn't find the right thing to do. All I want is to install a library to use PreferenceFragmentCompat or any class that replaces…
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Inner PreferenceScreen does not open with PreferenceFragmentCompat

My inner PreferenceScreen of PreferenceFragmentCompat is not showing, or seems to ignore tapping events. I created MyPreferenceFragment that extends PreferenceFragmentCompat public class MyPreferenceFragment extends PreferenceFragmentCompat { …
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HowTo use support.v7.preference with AppCompat and potential drawbacks

I was trying to implement preferences for an AppCompat app, using support.v7.preference. It took me a couple of days to fiddle through it, since support.v7.preference has some significant differences to the native preferences... which isn't too bad…
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How to move back from Preferences subscreen to main screen in PreferenceFragmentCompat?

I am trying to implement a Settings screen using PreferenceFragmentCompat. My preference xml has a preference subscreen like this: preferences.xml
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Android - custom row layout in my ListPreference

In my Android application, I have implemented class SubtitleColorListPreference which extends from ListPreference. I need this, because I need to set my own layout for each item in list. Everything works fine and it looks like this: The important…
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PreferenceFragmentCompat crashes on initalization

I have made an application with a ViewPager. Everything is working fine, when I make a debug build, and test it on my phone. (Not emulator) But when I build a release .apk and install it, the PreferenceFragmentCompat's…
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Android - change preference category color on marshmallow

I want to change v7 PreferenceCategory text and divider color. I have recently viewed this question: PreferenceFragmentCompat requires preferenceTheme to be set and I've added this to my style:
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PreferenceFragmentCompat padding issue with @style/PreferenceThemeOverlay

While using the default PreferenceThemeOverlay from the preference-v7 support library (version 23.1.0) I ran into the following issue. Starting from API 22 my PreferenceFragmentCompat had an ugly additional padding added to the left and right side…
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Not able to inflate a layout from preference screen layout

For my preference screen xml, I want to inflate a custom layout. Here is my preference screen xml:
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PreferenceFragmentCompat not found on Eclipse

Android already has a library to support PreferenceFragment in older versions. I'm not using Android Studio so I can't add to the gradle: com.android.support:preference-v7:23.0.0 I already have the latest version of the support library 23.0.1, but…
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ActivityPreference does not use Right-to-Left resources when locale changes

I'm currently developing an application which supports 3 languages base on Yaroslav Berezanskyi codes. It's great and I can change application language at runtime but there is a problem which has confused me. Unfortunately when I want to go to…
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Error inflating class for custom preference

I'm trying to use some preference classes which were written by hidron. I added SpinnerPrefence class to preference.xml but I run the app it gives me the error of InflateException. The question is why I get this error!! I checked package name in xml…
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PreferenceFragmentCompat issues

There seems to be alot of issues using PreferenceFragmentCompat. I have set the PreferenceThemeOverlay. But however, it seems that the Titles are too big. The EditTextPreference tag can't understand inputType. In general. It doesn't seem to have…
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