Get EditTextPreference value

android android-edittext sharedpreferences edittextpreference
anonymous picture anonymous · Jul 8, 2012 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

I've created an EditTextPreference and now I want to get the value from any other activity. I've been trying a lot of things but I cannot get it working. Where is this value stored? How can I retrieve it?

EDIT: I want to get the value from a different activity, not the Preferences activity.

settings.xml

<EditTextPreference
    android:title="EditText1"
    android:key="edit1"
    android:defaultValue="0"
    android:dialogIcon="@drawable/fleetespiar"
    android:inputType="number" />

Settings.java (How to do this in a different activity)

Preference edit1= findPreference("edit1");
EditTextPreference editt1 = (EditTextPreference) edit1;

System.out.println(String.valueOf(editt.getText().toString()));

Answer

Egor picture Egor · Jul 8, 2012

First you need to create an instance of SharedPreferences, then you can call getString() on it, specifying the key for the value.

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