Android PreferenceScreen DSL for using with androidx.preference framework.

PreferencesX.kt

@file:Suppress("NOTHING_TO_INLINE")

import android.content.Context
import androidx.annotation.StringRes
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment
import androidx.preference.*

/**
 * DSL marker for restricting access scope when [PreferencesBuilder.preference] is nested.
 */
@DslMarker
annotation class PreferenceDsl

/**
 * Data structure that exposes methods required for preferences DSL.
 *
 * @param preferenceManager [PreferenceManager] instance received from [PreferenceFragmentCompat]
 * @param preferenceGroup [PreferenceGroup] instance that will be used to add any newly created
 *                        [Preference] instances
 * @see preferences
 */
@PreferenceDsl
open class PreferencesBuilder<T : PreferenceGroup>(
        val preferenceManager: PreferenceManager,
        val preferenceGroup: T
) {
    /**
     * Managed [Context] instance from [preferenceManager] that has current preference theme and
     * styles applied
     */
    val preferenceContext: Context = preferenceManager.context

    /**
     * Creates an [Preference] instance of type [T] and adds to current [PreferenceScreen] in the
     * hierarchy. [builder] can be used to access the created [Preference] and configure it.
     *
     * Note: This method uses reflection to instantiate [T]'s with single arg [Context] constructor
     */
    inline fun <reified T : Preference> preference(crossinline builder: T.() -> Unit) {
        T::class.java.getConstructor(Context::class.java)
                .newInstance(preferenceContext)
                .apply(builder)
                .let(preferenceGroup::addPreference)
    }

    /**
     * Same as [preference] but type defaulted to [Preference]
     */
    inline fun simplePreference(crossinline builder: Preference.() -> Unit) {
        preference(builder)
    }

    /**
     * Adds a [PreferenceCategory] in the current [PreferenceScreen]. [builder] can be used to
     * add additional [Preference] to this group.
     */
    inline fun category(crossinline builder: CategoryPreferencesBuilder.() -> Unit) {
        PreferenceCategory(preferenceContext).let { preferenceCategory ->
            preferenceGroup.addPreference(preferenceCategory)
            CategoryPreferencesBuilder(preferenceManager, preferenceCategory).apply(builder)
        }
    }
}

/**
 * Data structure for constructing [Preference] hierarchy with given [PreferenceCategory] as the
 * category header.
 */
@PreferenceDsl
class CategoryPreferencesBuilder(
        preferenceManager: PreferenceManager,
        preferenceScreen: PreferenceCategory
) : PreferencesBuilder<PreferenceCategory>(preferenceManager, preferenceScreen) {

    fun properties(builder: PreferenceCategory.() -> Unit) {
        preferenceGroup.apply(builder)
    }
}

/**
 * Constructs [PreferenceScreen] hierarchy and adds to this [PreferenceFragmentCompat] by calling
 * [PreferenceFragmentCompat.setPreferenceScreen].
 *
 * Usage:
 * ```
 *      override fun onCreatePreferences(savedInstanceState: Bundle?, rootKey: String?) {
 *          preferences{
 *              simplePreference {
 *                  titleRes(R.string.preference_search)
 *                  keyRes(R.string.preference_key_search)
 *                  summaryRes(R.string.preference_search_summary)
 *                  targetFragment<SearchPreferencesFragment>()
 *              }
 *          }
 *      }
 * ```
 */
inline fun PreferenceFragmentCompat.preferences(crossinline builder: PreferencesBuilder<PreferenceScreen>.() -> Unit) {
    val context = preferenceManager.context
    preferenceScreen = preferenceManager.createPreferenceScreen(context).also { screen ->
        PreferencesBuilder(preferenceManager, screen).apply(builder)
    }
}

inline fun <reified T : Fragment> Preference.targetFragment() {
    fragment = T::class.java.name
}

inline fun Preference.keyRes(@StringRes keyRes: Int) {
    key = context.getString(keyRes)
}

inline fun Preference.summaryRes(@StringRes summaryRes: Int) {
    summary = context.getText(summaryRes)
}

inline fun Preference.titleRes(@StringRes tittleRes: Int) {
    title = context.getText(tittleRes)
}

inline fun Preference.defaultValueRes(@StringRes defaultValueRes: Int) {
    setDefaultValue(context.getString(defaultValueRes))
}

inline fun <reified T : Preference> Preference.summaryProvider(crossinline summaryProvider: T.() -> CharSequence) {
    setSummaryProvider { (this as T).summaryProvider() }
}

fun Preference.defaultSummaryProvider() {
    when {
        this is ListPreference -> setSummaryProvider(ListPreference.SimpleSummaryProvider.getInstance())
        this is EditTextPreference -> setSummaryProvider(EditTextPreference.SimpleSummaryProvider.getInstance())
    }
}

Sample usage

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