Advantages of PreferenceActivity?

You are right, given the desired view complexity (which sometimes is not more usable - remember preferences should be easy to set), it might not make sense to implement a PreferenceActivity The idea is to present a uniform configuration screen & visual style to the user. As such, a user will always know when he entered a preference screen From the docs: Furthermore, the preferences shown will follow the visual style of system preferences. It is easy to create a hierarchy of preferences (that can be shown on multiple screens) via XML.

For these reasons, it is recommended to use this activity (as a superclass) to deal with preferences in applications The docs say something about inflated views, maybe you could investigate whether complex layouts or custom views can be integrated.

You are right, given the desired view complexity (which sometimes is not more usable - remember preferences should be easy to set), it might not make sense to implement a PreferenceActivity. The idea is to present a uniform configuration screen & visual style to the user. As such, a user will always know when he entered a preference screen.

From the docs: Furthermore, the preferences shown will follow the visual style of system preferences. It is easy to create a hierarchy of preferences (that can be shown on multiple screens) via XML. For these reasons, it is recommended to use this activity (as a superclass) to deal with preferences in applications.

The docs say something about inflated views, maybe you could investigate whether complex layouts or custom views can be integrated.

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