Question

I am using PreferenceActivity, how can I set a custom title bar? Not only text but background color, size – the whole layout.

Answer 1

PreferenceActivity extends ListActivity, and when you inflate the preferences from xml with addPreferencesFromResource(), it puts the stuff into the standard ListView that ListActivity uses.

So basically, you can use setContentView() to specify a layout, but you need to have a ListView in it with the id "@+android:id/list".

So using kleini’s example code:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.login_settings);
    setContentView(R.layout.login_settings_layout);
}

You would need a ListView in login_settings_layout.xml that looks something like:

<ListView 
    android:id="@+android:id/list"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    />