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The application's default package is "example.app". and the target activity's package is "example.app.abc". Calling startActivity() for "example.app.abc.TheActivity" in java code just works, but specifying it on preference.xml doesn't work: <PreferenceScreen android:key="key" android:title="@string/title" > <intent android:action="android.intent.action.MAIN" android:targetPackage="example.app.abc" android:targetClass="TheActivity" /> </PreferenceScreen> I tried android:targetClass="example.app.abc.TheActivity" but it doesn't work too. Is it impossible to start an activity of non-default

How to generate dynamic listPreference in android? I want to get all wifi access points and make a list using in preference Activity(i.e. make a list using listpreference). How to do this? Philio Every XML element in Android can be created programmatically as the element name is also a Java class. Hence you can create a ListPreference in code: CharSequence[] entries = { "One", "Two", "Three" }; CharSequence[] entryValues = { "1", "2", "3" }; ListPreference lp = new ListPreference(this); lp.setEntries(entries); lp.setEntryValues(entryValues); You could alternatively create it in XML then add

I have been attempting to use an android.preference.DialogPreference inflated from XML, but the documentation seems to be missing some essential bits, and I cannot find a working example anywhere. My XML now looks like this (I tried many permutations but this seems like a reasonable minimum): <DialogPreference android:key="funThing" android:title="Fun Thing" android:dialogLayout="@layout/fun_layout" android:positiveButtonText="OK" android:negativeButtonText="Cancel" /> My supposition at this point is that it is required to subclass DialogPreference and not to use it directly. For one, I cannot

If you look at either Android Settings screenshot or FragmentsBC screenshot, there are margin in PreferenceFragment. How can you get rid of it? I tried making PreferenceFragment width to fill_parent, but no luck. Finally, I found the solution to this. @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { View v = super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState); if(v != null) { ListView lv = (ListView) v.findViewById(android.R.id.list); lv.setPadding(10, 10, 10, 10); } return v; } You can set padding by using: setPadding();