I'm trying to display a actionbar in my preference screen. In order to do so I added the following code in my SettingActivity
public class PreferencesActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.preferences_activity);
getFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
.replace(R.id.container, new PreferencesFragment()).commit();
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE | ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_HOME | ActionBar.DISPLAY_HOME_AS_UP);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}
}
then the rest of my code in PreferencesFragment. This works fine, but as soon as I press on a PreferenceScreen preference, the actionbar is hidden. If I go back to the preference main screen I can see it again. Any idea how to keep the actionbar displayed (and updated with the PreferenceScreen label) ?
Edit: Looking at the PreferenceScreen code it looks like a full screen Dialog is opened when the PreferenceScreen is clicked on. Because my preference has a title the Dialog should display a title as well... but it doesn't
// Set the title bar if title is available, else no title bar final CharSequence title = getTitle(); Dialog dialog = mDialog = new Dialog(context, context.getThemeResId()); if (TextUtils.isEmpty(title)) { dialog.getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); } else { dialog.setTitle(title); }
I finally managed to find a way to do this. It's kind of ugly but it works.
First I add an the same Intent to every PreferenceScreen definition in my preferences.xml file (make sure to update the value of the extra parameter)
<PreferenceScreen
android:key="pref1"
android:summary="Summary1"
android:title="Title1" >
<intent
android:action="android.intent.action.VIEW"
android:targetPackage="my.package"
android:targetClass="my.package.activity.PreferencesActivity" >
<extra android:name="page" android:value="pref1" />
</intent>
...
</PreferenceScreen>
BTW my.package.activity.PreferencesActivity is my current Preference Activity
Then I add an intent-filter in the Manifest
<activity
android:name=".activity.PreferencesActivity"
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
android:label="@string/settings" >
<intent-filter android:label="Pref" >
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.PREFERENCE" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
I add some code in the PreferenceActivity to handle this
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.preferences_activity);
this.fragment = new PreferencesFragment();
this.fragment.setActivityIntent(getIntent());
getFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
.replace(R.id.container, this.fragment).commit();
}
Finally I add the following code in my PreferencesFragment class
public void setActivityIntent(final Intent activityIntent) {
if (activityIntent != null) {
if (Intent.ACTION_VIEW.equals(activityIntent.getAction())) {
if (intent.getExtras() != null) {
final String page = intent.getExtras().getString("page");
if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(page)) {
openPreferenceScreen(page);
}
}
}
}
private void openPreferenceScreen(final String screenName) {
final Preference pref = findPreference(screenName);
if (pref instanceof PreferenceScreen) {
final PreferenceScreen preferenceScreen = (PreferenceScreen) pref;
((PreferencesActivity) getActivity()).setTitle(preferenceScreen.getTitle());
setPreferenceScreen((PreferenceScreen) pref);
}
}