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When developing applications for Google Android, there's a great way to implement your preferences using an xml, much like you would for a regular layout. The added benifit of doing it this way is that you don't have to implement how the preference values are saved. However, one of the problems is that there are only a couple of preference types implemented. For my latest application, I needed to let the user save a specific time. Where there is a TimePicker widget, there is not TimePickerPreference that extends the Preference class. So I wrote my own. // Please note this must be the package if you want to use XML-based preferences package android.preference; import android.content.Context; import android.util.AttributeSet; import android.view.View; import android.widget.TimePicker; /** * A preference type that allows a user to choose a time */ public class TimePickerPreference extends DialogPreference implements TimePicker.OnTimeChangedListener { /** * The validation expression for this preference */ private static final String VALIDATION_EXPRESSION = "[0-2]*[0-9]:[0-5]*[0-9]"; /** * The default value for this preference */ private String defaultValue; /** * @param context * @param attrs */ public TimePickerPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs); initialize(); } /** * @param context * @param attrs * @param defStyle */ public TimePickerPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) { super(context, attrs, defStyle); initialize(); } /** * Initialize this preference */ private void initialize() { setPersistent(true); } /* * (non-Javadoc) * * @see android.preference.DialogPreference#onCreateDialogView() */ @Override protected View onCreateDialogView() { TimePicker tp = new TimePicker(getContext()); tp.setOnTimeChangedListener(this); int h = getHour(); int m = getMinute(); if (h >= 0 && m >= 0) { tp.setCurrentHour(h); tp.setCurrentMinute(m); } return tp; } /* * (non-Javadoc) * * @see * android.widget.TimePicker.OnTimeChangedListener#onTimeChanged(android * .widget.TimePicker, int, int) */ @Override public void onTimeChanged(TimePicker view, int hour, int minute) { persistString(hour + ":" + minute); } /* * (non-Javadoc) * * @see android.preference.Preference#setDefaultValue(java.lang.Object) */ @Override public void setDefaultValue(Object defaultValue) { // BUG this method is never called if you use the 'android:defaultValue' attribute in your XML preference file, not sure why it isn't super.setDefaultValue(defaultValue); if (!(defaultValue instanceof String)) { return; } if (!((String) defaultValue).matches(VALIDATION_EXPRESSION)) { return; } this.defaultValue = (String) defaultValue; } /** * Get the hour value (in 24 hour time) * * @return The hour value, will be 0 to 23 (inclusive) */ private int getHour() { String time = getPersistedString(this.defaultValue); if (time == null || !time.matches(VALIDATION_EXPRESSION)) { return -1; } return Integer.valueOf(time.split(":")[0]); } /** * Get the minute value * * @return the minute value, will be 0 to 59 (inclusive) */ private int getMinute() { String time = getPersistedString(this.defaultValue); if (time == null || !time.matches(VALIDATION_EXPRESSION)) { return -1; } return Integer.valueOf(time.split(":")[1]); } } |
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