Question

I would like to customize my EditTextPreference. My goal is formatting the title text. Here is a relevant part of my prefs.xml

<com.widgets.FormattedEditTextPreference
    android:dialogTitle="android password"
    android:summary="password to this app"
    android:inputType="textPassword"
    android:key="sLoginPassw"
    android:title="android password" />

Here is the code behind:

public class FormattedEditTextPreference extends EditTextPreference {
public FormattedEditTextPreference( Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle ) {
    super( context, attrs, defStyle );
    setDialogTitle( context.getResources().getString( R.string.app_name )+attrs.getAttributeValue( 0 ) );
}

public FormattedEditTextPreference( Context context, AttributeSet attrs ) {
    super( context, attrs );
    setDialogTitle( context.getResources().getString( R.string.app_name )+attrs.getAttributeValue( 0 ) );
}

public FormattedEditTextPreference( Context context ) {
    super( context );
    setDialogTitle( context.getResources().getString( R.string.app_name ) );
}
}

This code isn’t elegant enough but works.

Answer 1

Donot override setDialogTitle, call setDialogTitle(“”) in each of the constructor. It is used by apps but not by the Preference component.