Question

I used the XML syntax to create a PreferenceActivity with a PreferenceScreen. I added an EditTextPreference and noticed that this renders as a dialog. Is there a way to make the EditText in-place i.e., the text field is displayed right in the PreferenceScreen instead of popping up as a dialog?

Answer 1

In case anyone comes across the same problem, this cannot be accomplished with the built-in Preference classes, but you can subclass Preference, and override getView() to return a ViewGroup containing an in-line EditText (or simply the EditText itself).

You could probably achieve this by providing the android:layout attribute in the XML too (although I haven’t tried this).

EDIT:
I tried the android:layout approach above, and it works pretty well.