Is there a way to keep the dividers around a non selectable preference?

Question

If you set the selectability of a preference item to false, you will notice that the dividers around that item will disappear.

Do you know if there is a way to keep those dividers?

I have looked at the ListView API and could not find a solution that could be applied here, since there is no selectable attribute for ListView items (except for the headers and footers).

Thanks!

Answer 1

some example code would help! did you set your dividers in the ListView element? if yes check this post as well.

<ListView
    //...
    android:divider="@color/black"
    />

Otherwise you could create a custom ListElementView and add your dividers in the layout xml.

Answer 2

The line you want to hide is called 'divider'. PreferenceActivity extends ListActivity and as you may expect it uses ListView. You can change a divider in a ListView. In your PreferenceActivity:

        ListView lv = getListView();
        lv.setDivider(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));
        lv.setDividerHeight(0);

Answer 3

Here is a "trick" that worked for me. Simply set android:focusable="true" to any of the items inside the preference. This will make the whole preference line not clickable.

Answer 4

I did it with a hack.

<Preference android:layout="@layout/preference_divider" />
<Preference android:title="@string/whatever" android:selectable="false" />

res/layout/preference_divider.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<View xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:background="#cccccc"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="1px" />

Answer 5

If you want to use the preference to show some text you can also use an uneditable EditTextPreference. The preference will still be selectable but only shows its content when selected.

<EditTextPreference
    android:editable="false"
    ... />