I just played with tailoring the preference stuff to add a both a "Reset All" preference, as well as adding a little "Reset" button next to the checkbox/whatever for the other preference types, so that you can easily just reset a specific preference, with the "Reset" being visible only if you're not using the default value. You just need to get a handle on the layout the preference itself is using for the widget area (I think it's android.R.id.widget_frame - at least in 2.2) and you can go to town... there may be reasons not to do it this way, but so far it certainly seems like a comfortable thing from a user-experience perspective.
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:02 AM, James W <[email protected]> wrote: >> I didn't do it that way >> because in my experience Menu options are not typically used in a >> Preference activity, so I wanted my users to be able to easily find >> it. > > Yeah, I hear you. > > Yet another possibility is to use your own layout for the > PreferenceActivity. On 1.x and 2.x, PreferenceActivity is just a > ListActivity with a chocolate coating, so you can use your own layout > if you want, following the ListActivity rules. Hence, if you want a > Reset option without hiding it in the options menu, yet not as a > Preference, use a custom layout and a Button. On 3.x, you may be able > to use an actual options menu -- presumably, it'll show up in the > action bar like any other options menu, meaning you could add it as a > toolbar button if you wanted. > > BTW, nice to see that doing this via a regular Preference is not that > hard -- I've only ever fussed with DialogPreference. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
