Once I faced a problem. I couldn’t implement custom title bar for PreferenceActivity. All the time I was getting exception like:
02-13 16:49:52.532: E/AndroidRuntime(623): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.coffeedriven.fuel/org.coffeedriven.fuel.SettingsActivity}: android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: requestFeature() must be called before adding content
I finally managed to find solution for this problem. Look at this code example:
public class SettingsActivity extends PreferenceActivity {
private ResultsDbAdapter resultsAdapter = ResultsDbAdapter.getInstance(this);
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
setContentView(R.layout.settings);
getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.title);
TextView customTitleText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.title);
customTitleText.setText(getTitle());
}
}
And of course my title template is simple LinearLayout with ImageView and TextView inside. Nothing special.
If you find better way to implement custom title with PreferenceActivity please share 
I will be more than happy, because this code looks ugly.
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