Changing preferences doesn't change SharedPreferences values

Question

I'm implementing preferences in my application and I've never worked with those before. I've read the documentation but I can't find a solution anywhere, I'm probably missing it though.

I've implemented preferences like this:

<CheckBoxPreference 
        android:title="@string/preference_update_urnik_title"
        android:summary="@string/preference_update_urnik_summary"
        android:key="autoUpdate"
        android:defaultValue="true"/>

and I basically haven't done anything else. I'm now trying to get the value of this preference like this:

boolean autoUpdate = prefs.getBoolean("autoUpdate", true);

And no matter if the checkbox is checked or not, it will always return true, so I'm guessing the preferences are failing to write to SharedPreferences when I check/uncheck the checkbox. Do I have to do it manually? Because I thought it was supposed to happen automatically.

I left the preference class file empty:

public class NastavitveActivity extends PreferenceActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
    }
}

Answer 1

Preferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context)
boolean value = preferences.getBoolean("autoUpdate", true);

this works for me.