How to add a button to PreferenceScreen

Question

Is there any way to add a button to the bottom of preferences screen and make them work correct when scrolling?

Answer 1

I know this is a bit late, but I just found a solution i like better than Max's praised solution.

You can simply add a footer (or if you like the button to be on top, a header) to the PreferenceActivity's ListView like so:

public class MyActivity extends PreferenceActivity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
        ListView v = getListView();
        v.addFooterView(new Button(this));
    }
}

I hope this helps someone.

Answer 2

The following is a simple solution to add a clickable button to your preference screen. This is made easy because the preferences already reserve the space in the android:widgetLayout and the button can pass clicks with android:onClick.

First create a button.xml with the content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<Button
    android:text="BUTTON"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/button"
    android:onClick="onButtonClick"/>
</LinearLayout>

Now in your preferences.xml, add the preference

<Preference
    android:key="button"
    android:title="Title"
    android:summary="Summary"
    android:widgetLayout="@layout/button" />

Your PreferenceActivity now only has to contain a onButtonClick member

public class MainActivity extends PreferenceActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.main_preferences);


}

public void onButtonClick(View v) {
    Log.d("Button", "Yeah, button was clicked");
}
}

Answer 3

You just need to use PreferenceFragment inside general Activity and add the button into activity layout.

public class SettingActivity extends Activity {

    UserProfileViewModel userProfileViewModel = null;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_setting);
        getFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                .replace(R.id.content, new SettingsFragment())
                .commit();

    }

    private class SettingsFragment extends PreferenceFragment {
        public SettingsFragment() {
        }

        @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            // Load the preferences from an XML resource
            addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.pref_main);

        }
    }
}

SettingActivity.java

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/content"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_above="@+id/buttonSave"/>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/buttonSave"
        android:text="Save"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

activity_setting

Answer 4

This example below will render a button at the bottom of the page (in case anybody is still interested).

In case of a LinearLayout you could also apply weights; this is needed because the Listview is set to *fill_parent*. I usually do this by adding *android:layout_weight* 's:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent"
              android:orientation="vertical">
    <ListView android:id="@android:id/list"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="10"/>
    <Button android:text="This is a button on top of all preferences."
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1"/>
</LinearLayout>

The explanation below isn't propbably 100% but it will help you understand...

+-- View Port (linear layout)
| +-- List View (this is where the preferences will go)
| |
| |
| +--
+--
  +--
  | Button (which was pushed out of view by the fillparent of ListView
  +--

You could also say, because the Button has no weight; the button is rendered at 0dp height.

Now with the layout_weigths added it will lett the button render inview

+-- View Port (linear layout)
| +-- List View (this is where the preferences will go)
| |
| |
| +--
| +--
| | Button (which was pushed out of view by the fillparent of ListView
| +--
+--

Answer 5

It is also possible to add Action buttons to the action bar for an android standard approach.

public class PrefActivity extends PreferenceActivity{

  @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    }

  @Override
  public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
      // Inflate the menu items for use in the action bar
      MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
      inflater.inflate(R.menu.preference_header_menu, menu);
      return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
  }

}


    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
       <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
       <item android:id="@+id/action_add"
           android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_add_dark"
           android:title="@string/menu_action_add_title"
           android:showAsAction="always"  />

   </menu>

Answer 6

This would be what the code looks like in the activity at the ronny's example. My intent was to put an menu in the bottom side of the screen.

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.prefs);
    addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.prefs);

   /* LayoutInflater CX = getLayoutInflater();
    CX.inflate(R.layout.main,null);*/
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
}