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10 years ago I have used the unofficial library which backports PreferenceFragment til API-4 as indicated in this commit https://github.com/EgyRevDev/Arrestred/commit/0a64548b54c743057746ec7b17b2fd7fd5151a91 I have imported android.support.v4.preference.PreferenceFragment instead of android.preference.PreferenceFragment. It is working fine on Android API 19 (KitKat 4.4) but still needs to be experimented on API 10
According to Settings Guidelines provided by Android Developers: I should use PreferenceFragment instead of PreferenceActivity which has been deprecated starting from API Level 11.
But I found out a compilation error upon using PreferenceFragement with Android Support Library 7 as explained in this post (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15078029/cant-get-the-preferencefragment-to-work-compiling-error)
Since PreferenceFragment is not backport to Support Library, I go for this solution: I would create a PreferenceActivity that uses PreferenceFragment on newer devices and just uses ordinary preference XML on older devices as explained here: https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-omnibus/tree/master/Prefs/FragmentsBC
Accordingly, I have created my own example on this branch () but I faced a critical problem for not being able to get Action Bar instance within a PreferenceActivity as explained here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17849193/how-to-add-action-bar-from-support-library-into-preferenceactivity#answer-17877021
So After quick search , I can use unofficial library as answered here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9783368/alternatives-to-preferencefragment-with-android-support-v4#answer-20727515
Need to use this unofficial library then test my code against Android API 10 or less.