Android get view of Preference in PreferenceActivity

Question

I would like to get View instance that is used to display specific Preference in my PreferenceActivity, so i can modify its properties, for example:

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Answer 1

To get the view of a desired preference you can use this:

@Override
public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasFocus)
{
    super.onWindowFocusChanged(hasFocus);
    Preference preference=findPreference(“preferenceKey”);
    View preferenceView=getListView().getChildAt(preference.getOrder());
    //Do your stuff
}

Note: You can not do this in the onCreate method because it will throw a NullPointerException.

Answer 2

PreferenceActivity inherits the ListActivity class. ListActivity has a method called getListView() which returns the ListView that displays your preferences.

EDIT: Here is the code in my comment formatted:

getListView().setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
       // ... put listener code here 
});

Answer 3

I'm not sure on how to get the view for a preference, but if you want to remove the view from the screen (set visibility to View.gone) you can use the following:

getPreferenceScreen().removePreference(thePreference)