Intent to a preferenceScreen

Question

I was wondering if it is possible to intent to a specific preferenceScreen:

<PreferenceScreen
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:key="first_preferencescreen">
<CheckBoxPreference
        android:key="wifi enabled"
        android:title="WiFi" />
<PreferenceScreen
        android:key="second_preferencescreen"
        android:title="WiFi settings">
    <CheckBoxPreference
            android:key="prefer wifi"
            android:title="Prefer WiFi" />
    ... other preferences here ...
</PreferenceScreen>

I'd like to intent to "second_preferencescreen", is it possible?

Answer 1

Split up your <PreferenceScreen> items into separate resource files. Say preferences1.xml and preferences2.xml . In general, Android xml can only have one root (top level) tag.

Then create FirstPreferenceActivity and SecondPreferencesActivity that extend PreferenceActivity .

Then call addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences1) or addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences2) in onCreate as seen here .

Once you've got that setup, then you can call startActivity(new Intent(this, FirstPreferencesActivity.class)) or startActivity(new Intent(this, SecondPreferencesActivity.class)) .