Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack

Build a Settings Screen via Code

I mentioned that a code-built Settings screen was possible back in ​Add the Preferences Resource File​, and this feels like a perfect time to create one. Before we do anything, though, we need to get the Preferences dependency in here:

implementation "androidx.preference:preference-ktx:$preference_version"

After adding the version variable and syncing, we want a new class in a new settings package called SettingsFragment.

Create the SettingsFragment Class

As we did before, this will be a child class of the PreferenceFragmentCompat class and include an onCreatePreferences function:

class SettingsFragment : PreferenceFragmentCompat() {

  override fun onCreatePreferences(
 savedInstanceState: Bundle?, ...