Question

When a button is clicked we get a view in the onClickListener method. Like:

Button btn = (Button) this.findViewById(R.id.btn);
            btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
                @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                    quickAction.show(v);
            }});

How can we do the same with the Preference i.e, if i want to pass the View of the preference screen to some method ?

Answer 1

If you are referring to finding a preference in a PreferenceFragment/PreferenceActivity you can do

Preference myPreference = findPreference("preference_key");
myPreference.setOnPreferenceClickListener(new OnPreferenceClickListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onPreferenceClick(Preference preference)
    {

        return false;
    }
});

You won’t be able to get a view in the traditional sense of how you’re thinking but you will instead get a Preference object. You can call getView (View convertView, ViewGroup parent) on the preference, however.