PreferencesActivity - customize style of checbkoxes, radio buttons etc

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Change icons of checked and unchecked for Checkbox for Android
customize check box preference

Is there any way to customize style of elements in PreferencesActivity?

I was only able to change color text, background etc.

I want to also change the check mark and radio button style in CheckBoxPreference and so on.

I'm interesting in API8 or greater.

Thanks for your help!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <CheckBoxPreference
        android:defaultValue="true"
        android:key="vibrate"
        android:summary="summary"
        android:title="Some title"
        android:widgetLayout="@layout/custom_checkbox" />
    <CheckBoxPreference
        android:defaultValue="true"
        android:key="autorotate"
        android:summary="summary"
        android:title="auto rotate" />
</PreferenceScreen>

Answer 1

I understand what you are saying now. I thought you were just using normal CheckBox inside your View. You are using CheckBoxPreference and the other Preference Views.

Ok, well the concept is very similar.

You need to define a custom widget layout. Do this in your res/layout directory and call it custom_checkbox.xml. We can use the CheckBox as an example.

Define how you would like the CheckBoxPreference to look with the custom widget layout you create in the res/layout directory by using a CheckBox. For instance:

<CheckBox
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+android:id/customCheckBox"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:button="@drawable/android_button"
    android:clickable="false"
    android:focusable="false" />

You can replace android:button with any drawable that you have found or designed.

Now you need to define your CheckBoxPreference and setting its android:widgetLayout to the custom CheckBox you just defined in res/layout. For example:

<CheckBoxPreference
    android:defaultValue="true"
    android:key="@string/Drop_Option"
    android:title="Close after call drop"
    android:widgetLayout="@layout/custom_checkbox" />

If you are not using xml for defining your layout you can do it in code like this:

    CheckBoxPreference checkBoxPreference = new CheckBoxPreference(this);
    checkBoxPreference.setWidgetLayoutResource(R.layout.custom_checkbox);

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Konstantin Burov

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