Represents the basic Preference UI building block displayed by a Android.Preferences.PreferenceActivity in the form of a Android.Widget.ListView. This class provides the Android.Views.View to be displayed in the activity and associates with a Android.Content.ISharedPreferences to store/retrieve the preference data.

When specifying a preference hierarchy in XML, each element can point to a subclass of Android.Preferences.Preference, similar to the view hierarchy and layouts.

This class contains a key that will be used as the key into the Android.Content.ISharedPreferences. It is up to the subclass to decide how to store the value.

Developer Guides

For information about building a settings UI with Preferences, read the Settings guide.

[Android Documentation]