Android preferences onclick event

Question

In my preferences.xml I have a preference element like this:

<Preference android:title="About" />

I want to assign onClick event, so if user would click on it, I would be able to do open new Intent or browser. I tried to do it like I do with buttons, but this not seem to work.

Answer 1

You need to set android:key for the item:

<Preference
    android:key="myKey"
    android:title="About" />

Then you can do the following in your code:

Preference myPref = (Preference) findPreference("myKey");
myPref.setOnPreferenceClickListener(new OnPreferenceClickListener() {
    public boolean onPreferenceClick(Preference preference) {
        // open browser or intent here
        return true;
    }
});