Preference Activity on Preference Click Listener

Question

I am building a Preference Activity where most of the preferences in the list will be executing code and not modifying a SharedPreference directly. My preferences.xml file looks like this.

<PreferenceCategory
    android:title="Connection" >

    <Preference
        android:id="@+id/settings_connectToNewComputer"
        android:key="connectToNewComputer"
        android:summary="Currently connected to:"
        android:title="Connect to new computer" />

    <Preference
        android:id="@+id/removeDevice"
        android:key="removeDevice"
        android:summary="Remove this device from the computer's whitelist"
        android:title="Remove this device from computer" />

</PreferenceCategory>

<PreferenceCategory
    android:title="About" >

    <Preference
        android:id="@+id/settings_About"
        android:key="about"
        android:summary="About me and my thanks to those who made this app great"
        android:title="About Hue Pro" />

    <Preference
        android:id="@+id/contact"
        android:key="contact"
        android:summary="Contact me with comments, bugs, and suggestions for updates"
        android:title="Contact me" />

</PreferenceCategory>

My goal is to have a block of code executed when a one of these preferences are clicked. Similar to the "Clear search history" in the Google Play settings preference menu. (https://i.sstatic.net/HgEE4.png)

Does anyone know how to make this possible?

I have to add that I have tried using findPreference("KeyNameHere") but it always returns null.

Thank you!

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Edit:

I added in this code and implemented OnPreferenceClickListener:

@Override
public boolean onPreferenceClick(Preference preference) {
    return false;
}

But this method never gets called. Is there another way to do this?

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Edit 2:

I have found that if I take out the PreferenceCategory tags so I am left with this:

<Preference
    android:id="@+id/settings_connectToNewComputer"
    android:key="connectToNewComputer"
    android:summary="Currently connected to:"
    android:title="Connect to new computer" />

<Preference
    android:id="@+id/removeDevice"
    android:key="removeDevice"
    android:summary="Remove this device from the computer's whitelist"
    android:title="Remove this device from computer" />

<Preference
    android:id="@+id/settings_About"
    android:key="about"
    android:summary="About me and my thanks to those who made this app great"
    android:title="About Hue Pro" />

<Preference
    android:id="@+id/contact"
    android:key="contact"
    android:summary="Contact me with comments, bugs, and suggestions for updates"
    android:title="Contact me" />

and call this:

getPreferenceScreen().setOnPreferenceClickListener(new Preference.OnPreferenceClickListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onPreferenceClick(Preference preference) {
            return false;
        }
    });

then I actually get a response from the click event. The only down side is I have to remove the preference grouping. Anyone know why this is and any way to fix it?

Answer 1

I came up with my own (what I believe is really messed up) solution; but it works.

for(int x = 0; x < getPreferenceScreen().getPreferenceCount(); x++){
        PreferenceCategory lol = (PreferenceCategory) getPreferenceScreen().getPreference(x);
        for(int y = 0; y < lol.getPreferenceCount(); y++){
            Preference pref = lol.getPreference(y);
            pref.setOnPreferenceClickListener(new Preference.OnPreferenceClickListener(){

                @Override
                public boolean onPreferenceClick(Preference preference) {
                    return false;
                }

            });
        }
    }

So what I have learned is there is a hierarchical system that works like: PreferenceScreen has children PreferenceCategory has children Preference, as you can see in the XML file. My problem was I could not set the preferences' onClickListeners directly from the PreferenceScreen. So I made two for loops that will get down to each Preference and set an OnPreferenceClickListener for each and every one of them. Messy, but works finally.