Android - MaterialPreference

A simple backward-compatible implementation of a Material Design Preference aka settings item
XML layouts are taken from Android Platform Framework Base

Screenshots

Here's a side-by-side comparison with a native Lollipop preference:

Usage

In your settings XML file that describes your preferences (must be located in res/xml/ folder) just use the custom Preference and PreferenceCategory like this:

<com.jenzz.materialpreference.PreferenceCategory
  android:title="Material Category">

  <com.jenzz.materialpreference.Preference
    android:title="Material Preference"
    android:summary="Material Summary" />

</com.jenzz.materialpreference.PreferenceCategory>

That's it. You can use all the attributes you know from the original preferences.

You're probably wondering why there's only a Material Design version of Preference and one for PreferenceCategory. Where are ListPreference, EditTextPreference, etc? I don't use them. Instead I just show a simple Preference and display a Material Design dialog when the user selects it. I highly recommend using the material-dialogs library for that.

Theming

On Lollipop, the preference color is derived from the android:colorAccent attribute of your app theme.
If you're using AppCompat, it is inherited from the colorAccent attribute.
If you want a totally different color for your preferences (why would you?), you can still override it in your app theme like this:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
  <item name="mp_colorAccent">#bada55</item>
</style>

Example

Check out the sample project for an example implementation.

Download

Grab it via Gradle:

compile 'com.jenzz:materialpreference:1.2'

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.