Exploring the Preferences Framework
Before we dig into Android's preferences framework, let's establish a scenario that would require the use of preferences and then explore how we would go about addressing it. Suppose you are writing an application that provides a facility to search for airline flights. Moreover, suppose that the application's default setting is to display flights based on the lowest cost, but the user can set a preference to always sort flights by the least number of stops or by a specific airline. How would you go about doing that?
Understanding ListPreference
Obviously, you would have to provide a UI for the user to view the list of sort options. The list would contain radio buttons for each option, and the default (or current) ...
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