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I also face this issue. Is there any workaround before it is fixed?

I'm also seeing this bug. As Android 4.0.4 is merrily toggling settings in the background as if the user did it, I'm not sure what workaround there is, other than to use CheckBoxPreference if you have more than one boolean preference on your screen.

I am finding exactly the same issue. As I scroll through the list of my preferences using SwitchPreference the values of the preferences when they are read back just change. The onSharedPreferenceChanged function is called as the screen scrolls with new values for the mChecked member of the switch preference.  It seems that as   a preference scrolls out of view the callback is invoked as if the user clicked on the preference.

Here is my workaround:

public class CustomSwitchPreference extends SwitchPreference {

    /**
     * Construct a new SwitchPreference with the given style options.
     *
     * @param context The Context that will style this preference
     * @param attrs Style attributes that differ from the default
     * @param defStyle Theme attribute defining the default style options
     */
    public CustomSwitchPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    /**
     * Construct a new SwitchPreference with the given style options.
     *
     * @param context The Context that will style this preference
     * @param attrs Style attributes that differ from the default
     */
    public CustomSwitchPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    /**
     * Construct a new SwitchPreference with default style options.
     *
     * @param context The Context that will style this preference
     */
    public CustomSwitchPreference(Context context) {
        super(context, null);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onBindView(View view) {
        // Clean listener before invoke SwitchPreference.onBindView
        ViewGroup viewGroup= (ViewGroup)view;
        clearListenerInViewGroup(viewGroup);
        super.onBindView(view);
    }

    /**
     * Clear listener in Switch for specify ViewGroup.
     *
     * @param viewGroup The ViewGroup that will need to clear the listener.
     */
    private void clearListenerInViewGroup(ViewGroup viewGroup) {
        if (null == viewGroup) {
            return;
        }

        int count = viewGroup.getChildCount();
        for(int n = 0; n < count; ++n) {
            View childView = viewGroup.getChildAt(n);
            if(childView instanceof Switch) {
                final Switch switchView = (Switch) childView;
                switchView.setOnCheckedChangeListener(null);
                return;
            } else if (childView instanceof ViewGroup){
                ViewGroup childGroup = (ViewGroup)childView;
                clearListenerInViewGroup(childGroup);
            }
        }
    }

}

It works,Awesome,Thanks a lot!

Reproducible on Android 4.2.1 (Galaxy Nexus).

Galaxy Nexus @ Android 4.2.1. Russian interface. Camera app. Preferences. Geotag toggler

Still happening in Nexus 4, Android 4.2.2... but the workaround mentioned in #4 works. Thank you very, VERY, *VERY* much!!!!

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A have this bug also on stock Android 4.3 on Nexus 7. Have been spending 2 hours to review my code to solve this and then it turns out to be a bug of over a year old. Quite serious bug to if you ask me since it is hard to detect.

My solution was to replace all SwitchPreference widgets with CheckBoxPreferences.

My workaround is similar to #4 <caoyachao1982@gmail.com>

public class CustomSwitchPreference extends SwitchPreference {

    public CustomSwitchPreference(Context context) {
        this(context, null);
    }

    public CustomSwitchPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        this(context, attrs, android.R.attr.switchPreferenceStyle);
    }

    public CustomSwitchPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

}

fixed camera ui on 4.3
thanks

There seems to be a duplicate here: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=57159

Issue occurs on Moto X (Android 4.4).  Was able to apply workaround #11 above successfully.

Confirming #15, issue still present in 4.4 on Moto X

Can reproduce the issue on L Preview as well. Maybe it's time to get this fixed?

I opened https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=72801 because I missed this one. Sorry for that.

Fixed in master branch.

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It's already fixed in Lollipop. Since SwitchPreference is baked into the OS it's not possible to update/fix it without releasing a full Android update. Those take awhile to come down the pipeline and for some (even if they're relatively new) devices it may never come. It can't be fixed by pushing an update to the Play Store.

The solution in comment #4 should work just fine for supporting KitKat and before. I've used it. The only place where it would not work is if you cannot use custom views. And that's not often.

Hello,
Is this issue also present in https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/preference/SwitchPreferenceCompat ?
I guess no, but rather ask for a confirmation...
Thanks