Android Question MaterialPreferenceLibrary

[wimpie3]

It seems that using some of the libraries here on the forum, material design can be used in our applications. One important part seems to be missing though, a material preference screen (like for instance here: https://github.com/AndroidDeveloperLB/MaterialPreferenceLibrary).

Anyone willing to take a look at this?

 

[marcel]

+1

 

[lomosami]

+1

 

[bryantm1122]

You could try this: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/ahpreferenceactivity-library.12666/

 

[lomosami]

Ye I know the library.. I think that this one is created with the new material design.. it is only for design.

 

[trueboss323]

I would love something like this.
+1

 

[JohnC]

+1

 

[corwin42]

I am aware that the PreferenceActivity libraries do not use Material Design.

I'm thinking about a possibility how to replace it but I'm currently not sure which is the best way. Please be patient.

 

[JohnC]

I am aware that the PreferenceActivity libraries do not use Material Design.

I'm thinking about a possibility how to replace it but I'm currently not sure which is the best way. Please be patient.

I definitely would make another donation if you could do this

 

[Stax]

I'm working on an app that is using AppCompat library. I want entire app to use Material Design including preference activity.
So far, in order to utilize Material Design, I started to craft preference activity manually but it's tedious to make it look and behave right.
MaterialPreferenceLibrary could come extremely handy for my current and future projects - I wish I had enough knowledge to make one and share with B4A community.
For now I have to rely on great contributors like @corwin42 who hopefully made some progress on replacement for PreferenceActivity?

 

[fredo]

+1

 

[johndb]

I'm working on an app that is using AppCompat library. I want entire app to use Material Design including preference activity.
So far, in order to utilize Material Design, I started to craft preference activity manually but it's tedious to make it look and behave right.
MaterialPreferenceLibrary could come extremely handy for my current and future projects - I wish I had enough knowledge to make one and share with B4A community.
For now I have to rely on great contributors like @corwin42 who hopefully made some progress on replacement for PreferenceActivity?

Has there been any progress made to provide a new Material Design based Preference Library?

John

 

[Erel]

You don't really need any new library.

The PreferenceActivity will use the default theme. It will be the material theme on Android 5+.

 

[corwin42]

Ok, I'm now on some tests on a new Preference library.

Current Features:

• CheckBoxPreference
• ColorPreference (picker for predefined colors)
• EditTextPreference (with full access to the EditText so setting InputType etc is no problem)
• ListPreference (with 3 styles: simple menu, dialog and simple dialog)
• PreferenceCategory headers
• RingTonePreference
• SeekBarDialogPreference
• SeekBarPreference
• SwitchPreference
• Can be added to a normal AppCompatActivity
• Support for custom pickers like MaterialDateTimePicker
• Support for Intents (calling system settings dialogs or whatever)
• Supports events (Click, Value changed)

It is extremely flexible and I'm quite satisfied with it.
All features of PreferenceActivity library and AHPreferenceActivity library are possible and a lot more.

Still to do:

• tinting Icons
• some possiblilities to colorize texts
• some tests
• A nice example app

 

[JohnC]

Sweet!

 

[corwin42]

Here we go.