I made a custom DialogPreference to have a seekbar dialog in my settings, bound its summary to its value with bindPreferenceSummaryToValue
method provided by default with a Setting Activity. (see the one below) Everything is working fine, however when the setting in first set, it is not set to default, but 0, because 0 is set as a fallback value in bindPreferenceSummaryToValue.
private static void bindPreferenceSummaryToValue(Preference preference) {
preference.setOnPreferenceChangeListener(bindPreferenceSummaryToValueListener);
if (preference instanceof SeekBarPreference) {
bindPreferenceSummaryToValueListener.onPreferenceChange(preference,
PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(preference.getContext()).
getInt(preference.getKey(), 0)); // Fallback value
} else {
...
In my custom DialogPreference I have the following methods:
@Override
protected Object onGetDefaultValue(TypedArray a, int index) {
return a.getInt(index, 0);
}
@Override
protected void onSetInitialValue(boolean restorePersistedValue, Object defaultValue) {
progress= restorePersistedValue ? getPersistedInt(progress) : (int) defaultValue;
}
And of course in prefs.xml I have:
<SeekBarPreference
android:defaultValue="10"
android:key="my_key"
... />
And this in MainActivity:
PreferenceManager.setDefaultValues(this, R.xml.prefs, false);
Fallback value is used when value is null I guess, but why would it be null if I had it set to default?
Solved my issue with this:
@Override
protected Object onGetDefaultValue(TypedArray a, int index) {
return a.getInt(index, 0);
}
@Override
protected void onSetInitialValue(boolean restorePersistedValue, Object defaultValue) {
progress = restorePersistedValue ? getPersistedInt(progress) : (int) defaultValue;
persistInt(progress); // ADD THIS HERE
}
The reason is that when value is set from the xml preference file, it needs to be saved to the SharedPreferences by the preference itself. That's what persistInt
does.