Question

I have a PreferenceActivity with a bunch of (Sub)PreferenceScreens. Each such (Sub)PreferenceScreen represents an account and has the account-username as its title.

PreferenceScreen root = mgr.createPreferenceScreen(this);
for (MyAccountClass account : myAccounts) {
    final PreferenceScreen accScreen = mgr.createPreferenceScreen(this);

    accScreen.setTitle(account.getUsername());

    // add Preferences to the accScreen
    // (for instance a "change username"-preference)
    ...

    root.add(accScreen);
}

As the user enters sub-PreferenceScreen, and edits the account user-name, I want the outer PreferenceScreen to update it’s PreferenceScreen-title for the account in question.

I’ve tried to add…

usernamePref.setOnPreferenceChangeListener(new OnPreferenceChangeListener() {
    public boolean onPreferenceChange(Preference preference, Object newValue) {
        accScreen.setTitle(newValue.toString());
        return true;
    }
});

…but the accScreen.setTitle does not seem to take effect on the outer PreferenceScreen. I’ve note that calling onContentChanged(); actually makes it work, but I realize that this is probably not the preferred way of doing it.

I suspect I should call postInvalidate() on some view somewhere, but I really can’t figure out on what view and when to do it.

PreferenceScreen android:summary update ! may be experiening the same problem as me.

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

I found a solution to this. I have a hierarchy like this, each of these is a PreferenceScreen:

main settings
  -> users list
    -> user1 settings
    -> user2 settings
    ...

In the users list, title of the sub-screen is dependent on the user settings. Now when I create the user list, I store the list adapter to a variable in my PreferenceActivity.

 PreferenceScreen usersListScreen = ...
 userScreenListAdapter = (BaseAdapter)usersListScreen.getRootAdapter();

Now when userX-settings are edited, I set the titles in the usersListScreen and after that call:

userScreenListAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

which updates the list UI and the changes are visible.