Question

I am working right now with Android’s SharedPreferences.

I have set some preference binded to EditTextPreference – so content is String type and we access it with:

String defaultValue = "1337";
String value = preferences.getString("key", defaultValue);

But what about we want to work with int value ?

int defaultValue = 1337;
int value = Integer.parseInt(preferences.getString("key", String.valueOf(defaultValue)));

Is there a better way ? Can I somehow set EditTextPreference to be int typed ?

Answer 1

Can I somehow set EditTextPreference to be int typed ?

No, sorry. You can create your own custom subclass of DialogPreference, perhaps even a subclass of EditTextPreference (not sure how flexible that is), that saves values as an integer value in the SharedPreferences.