Question

I am trying to fill up my ListPreference from within my Activity rather than have the array stored in xml. However I am finding this problematic. I may be setting up my preferences wrong. I have access to my ListPreference however filling the content dynamically I can’t seem to get. I have looked at this post. Is it possible to load ListPreference items from an adapter? but I can’t seem to figure it out from this.

I am trying to occupy the ListPreference with Strings from a List of objects.

This is what I have so far:

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
    SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(LUAS_TIMES_PREF, 0);

    ListPreference lp = (ListPreference)findPreference("station_pref");

}

Not much but how can I fill this list preference with my own list?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It should be as simple as:

lp.setEntries(new String [] {"A Man", "A Plan"}); // set displayed text
lp.setEntryValues(new String [] {"a_man", "a_plan"}); // set associated values 

Extrapolate as required 🙂