androidpreferences

Remove/hide a preference from the screen

I have an activity which extends PreferenceActivity. I'm loading preferences from the xml file. But in some cases i need completely hide one of the preferences from the screen based on my app state. There is a setEnabled method, but it's not exactly what i want. I want to remove that preference from the screen completely. Is it possible ?

Solution

  • Yes, if you have a reference to both the Preference, and its parent (a PreferenceCategory, or PreferenceScreen)

    myPreferenceScreen.removePreference(myPreference);