How to use textview in Android's PreferenceScreen?

android, java

Solution

You can assign layout resource for your preference in your xml file, using tag `android:layout="@layout/your_pref_layout"`.

Don't forget to use proper ids in your layout (android:id="@+android:id/title", android:id="@+android:id/summary") to assign views to be used as title/summary views.

For more info see for example this: Creating a custom layout for preferences

or this: How to add a button to PreferenceScreen

Problem

I would like to use textview in PreferenceScreen, it's a longer text that explains some specific setting. If I use summary or title attribute on some versions it gets formatted weirdly, doesn't display correctly etc. (The text is rather long). Therefor I find it would be the best to use textview, is it possible to create custom settings element?

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