Hide password on settings screen
I solved the issue using OnPreferenceChangeListener which is called before the preference is displayed and when it is changed. I take the opportunity then to set a modified version of the password in the summary, by converting the text to string with stars
Preference.OnPreferenceChangeListener sBindPreferenceSummaryToValueListener = new Preference.OnPreferenceChangeListener() {
@Override
public boolean onPreferenceChange(Preference preference, Object value) {
String stringValue = value.toString();
...
if (preference instanceof EditTextPreference){
// For the pin code, set a *** value in the summary to hide it
if (preference.getContext().getString(R.string.pref_pin_code_key).equals(preference.getKey())) {
stringValue = toStars(stringValue);
}
preference.setSummary(stringValue);
}
...
return true;
}
};
String toStars(String text) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++) {
sb.append('*');
}
text = sb.toString();
return text;
}
thank you all, currently I used "hotfix", which hide value of password. I will try replace it in the future. Hotfix is, that I simply remove showing of password:
bindPreferenceSummaryToValue(findPreference("username"));
//bindPreferenceSummaryToValue(findPreference("password"));
bindPreferenceSummaryToValue(findPreference("ip"));
bindPreferenceSummaryToValue(findPreference("port"));