I want to create a settings menu in my android app. I tried different ways to create a simple settings menu, but all of them had a lot of errors or were not working properly. Can anyone help me?
First create a new project. To show you how this could be done paste this into your main launcher activity:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<PreferenceCategory android:title="Settings" >
<EditTextPreference
android:title="Password"
android:summary="Set Your Password"
android:key="prefUserPassword"/>
</PreferenceCategory>
<PreferenceCategory android:title="Security Settings" >
<CheckBoxPreference
android:defaultValue="false"
android:key="prefLockScreen"
android:summary="Lock The Screen With Password"
android:title="Screen Lock" >
</CheckBoxPreference>
<ListPreference
android:key="prefUpdateFrequency"
android:title="Reminder for Updation"
android:summary="Set Update Reminder Frequency"
android:entries="@array/updateFrequency"
android:entryValues="@array/updateFrequencyValues"
/>
</PreferenceCategory>
</PreferenceScreen>
Since we have used arrays here, We need to define it inside array.xml file. Create an arrays.xml file inside values folder and write following
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string-array name="updateFrequency">
<item name="1">Daily</item>
<item name="7">Weekly</item>
<item name="3">Yearly</item>
<item name="0">Never(I will Myself) </item>
</string-array>
<string-array name="updateFrequencyValues">
<item name="1">1</item>
<item name="7">7</item>
<item name="30">30</item>
<item name="0">0</item>
</string-array>
</resources>
This is purely a sample taken from here