There is another solution for customizing the appearance of the preferences.
Design a normal XML layout with buttons or whatever you want to add to the standard preferences. Include a ListView
in your layout and give it the ID @android:id/list
.
Let's say we call the layout file res/layout/main.xml
. It could look something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<Button android:text="This is a button on top of all preferences."
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<ListView android:id="@android:id/list"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</LinearLayout>
In your PreferenceActivity
, add these two lines to your onCreate
:
addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
The
ListView
in your layout will then be replaced by the preferences defined the usual way in
res/xml/preferences.xml