Question

I have a settings menu that pops up and in it is a ListPreference type menu. It is associated with a settings.xml file where there are ‘array-strings’ within it. It all works good but I don’t know how to retrieve the users preference.

As an example, let’s say the user picks a color (red, green, or blue). The list that I’ve made within my ‘array-strings’ contain the text red, green, and blue. Within my code, I would like to do something if the user has chosen red, something else if they choose blue, etc., etc. Would I use a ‘case’ statement or an ‘if’ statement? And most importantly, how would I retrieve the users preference – the key? (am I checking for a boolean?)

Answer 1

If you are using ListPreference and you haven’t disabled Persistent state, you can read the selected value from the SharedPreferences, after the setting is completed.

SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
prefs.getString(yourkey, "defvalue");

Also you can subscribe to onClick event, and you use the code Rpond mentioned.