AndroidPreferenceActivity

Features

• The activity's navigation allows to show preference headers, which categorize the preferences of a PreferenceFragment. Furthermore, regular fragments can be shown. Besides a title, the preference headers may contain an icon and a summary and it is possible to launch an intent when a header is selected.
• The activity's preference headers can be defined via XML resources, which are compatible to the ones used to initialize the Android SDK's built-in PreferenceActivity. Alternatively, the preference headers can be added or removed dynamically at runtime, which causes the current selected preference header to be adapted automatically.
• The activity provides methods, which easily allow to access its child views in order to manipulate their appearance. For the most common manipulations even dedicated methods exist.
• The library allows to override the behavior of the action bar's back button in order to use it for navigating on devices with a small screen.
• It is possible to launch the activity using an intent, which specifies the preference header, which should be initially selected. Such an intent also allows to hide the navigation.
• By specifying appropriate intent extras, it is also possible to use the activity as a wizard, which provides an alternative navigation, which allows to navigate from one step of the wizard to an other. The navigation can be observed and influenced by implementing and registering an appropriate listener.
• The library provides a class, which is extended from the Android SDK's built-in PreferenceFragment. This class allows to show a button, which may be used to restore the default values of the fragment's preferences.
• The UI has been designed according to the Android 5.0 "Material Design" guidelines. Material Design is even used on pre-Lollipop devices (API level less than 21).

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