Showing ListPreference from the main activity

Question

I have a

SettingsActivity extends PreferenceActivity

SettingsActivity is populated by addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences) where I have my custom

SMode extends ListPreference

<PreferenceCategory
    android:key="key"
    android:persistent="false"
    android:title="Title" >

<package.SMode
    android:title="Mode"
        android:entries="@array/1"
        android:entryValues="@array/2"
    android:key="prefSMode"
                android:summary="Sum"
    />

What I want to do is to show this ListPreference dialog by clicking a button outside the PreferenceActivity. In other words a shortcut for setting "mode" without leaving my main acitivy and going to preferences.

I also need it to work with APII level < 11.

Is it possible to do that?

Answer 1

Use PreferenceFragment see example here .
You can use it inside and FragmentActivity or in DialogFragment .
But if you need to use below API 11 consider a custom view.