Can't retrieve android preferences from preference.xml

Question

I have been looking at preferences in android, but I think I must be getting something wrong. My basic idea is to have a preference.xml file (located in res/xml), which stores a bunch of data, including ListPreference etc. I have set default values in the XML, but when I try to retrieve the values in a separate fragment, it can't seem to find the preference.

Code of the function in my Fragment:

public static void attemptToAddToCalendar(final Context context, final SessionEntity session){

        SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = context.getSharedPreferences("preferences", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
        Toast.makeText(context, "preferences are" + sharedPreferences.getString("pref_addToCalendarAutomatically-list", "Unknown"), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

Code of the preferences.xml;

<ListPreference
            android:key="pref_addToCalendarAutomatically-list"
            android:entries="@array/pref_ARaddToCalendarAutomatically"
            android:entryValues="@array/pref_ARaddToCalendarAutmaticallyValues"
            android:defaultValue="2"
            android:summary="Add favorites to calendar"
            android:title="Calendar Options" ></ListPreference>
</PreferenceCategory>

The array Now this will only output the text "preferences are Unknown", which evidently means it can't find the values. But I don't understand why.

Answer 1

Thank you for the comment! It was indeed only the layout. In hindsight it's kind of obvious, but I was kind of blind...

For anyone that stumbles across the same thing, I modified my code as follows:

Fragment function:

  public static void attemptToAddToCalendar(final Context context, final SessionEntity session){

        SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);
        Toast.makeText(context, "preferences are " + sharedPreferences.getString("prefAddToCalendarAutomaticallylist", "Unknown"), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

And the XML accordingly:

<ListPreference
        android:key="prefAddToCalendarAutomaticallyList"
        android:entries="@array/prefARaddToCalendarAutomatically"
        android:entryValues="@array/prefARaddToCalendarAutomaticallyValues"
        android:defaultValue="2"
        android:summary="Add favorites to calendar"
        android:title="Calendar Options" >
</ListPreference>

This was driving me nuts, so thanks again!