How do I display the current value of an Android Preference in the Preference summary?

Android documentation says one can use a String formatting marker in getSummary():

If the summary has a String formatting marker in it (i.e. "%s" or "%1$s"), then the current entry value will be substituted in its place.

Simply specifying android:summary="Clean up messages after %s days" in ListPreference xml declaration worked for me.

Note: This only works for ListPreference.

According to Android docs you can use app:useSimpleSummaryProvider="true" in ListPreference and EditTextPreference components.

In Android Studio, open "root_preferences.xml", select Design mode. Select the desired EditTextPreference preference, and under "All attributes", look for the "useSimpleSummaryProvider" attribute and set it to true. It will then show the current value.

Since in androidx Preference class has the SummaryProvider interface, it can be done without OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener. Simple implementations are provided for EditTextPreference and ListPreference. Building on EddieB's answer it can look like this. Tested on androidx.preference:preference:1.1.0-alpha03.

package com.example.util.timereminder.ui.prefs;

import android.os.Bundle;

import com.example.util.timereminder.R;

import androidx.preference.EditTextPreference;
import androidx.preference.ListPreference;
import androidx.preference.Preference;
import androidx.preference.PreferenceFragmentCompat;
import androidx.preference.PreferenceGroup;

/**
 * Displays different preferences.
 */
public class PrefsFragmentExample extends PreferenceFragmentCompat {

    @Override
    public void onCreatePreferences(Bundle savedInstanceState, String rootKey) {
        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);

        initSummary(getPreferenceScreen());
    }

    /**
     * Walks through all preferences.
     *
     * @param p The starting preference to search from.
     */
    private void initSummary(Preference p) {
        if (p instanceof PreferenceGroup) {
            PreferenceGroup pGrp = (PreferenceGroup) p;
            for (int i = 0; i < pGrp.getPreferenceCount(); i++) {
                initSummary(pGrp.getPreference(i));
            }
        } else {
            setPreferenceSummary(p);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Sets up summary providers for the preferences.
     *
     * @param p The preference to set up summary provider.
     */
    private void setPreferenceSummary(Preference p) {
        // No need to set up preference summaries for checkbox preferences because
        // they can be set up in xml using summaryOff and summary On
        if (p instanceof ListPreference) {
            p.setSummaryProvider(ListPreference.SimpleSummaryProvider.getInstance());
        } else if (p instanceof EditTextPreference) {
            p.setSummaryProvider(EditTextPreference.SimpleSummaryProvider.getInstance());
        }
    }
}

If you are using AndroidX you can use a custom SummaryProvider. This approach can be used for any Preference.

Example from documentation (Java):

EditTextPreference countingPreference = (EditTextPreference) findPreference("counting");

countingPreference.setSummaryProvider(new SummaryProvider<EditTextPreference>() {
    @Override
    public CharSequence provideSummary(EditTextPreference preference) {
        String text = preference.getText();
        if (TextUtils.isEmpty(text)){
            return "Not set";
        }
        return "Length of saved value: " + text.length();
    }
});

Example from documentation (Kotlin):

val countingPreference = findPreference("counting") as EditTextPreference

countingPreference.summaryProvider = SummaryProvider<EditTextPreference> { preference ->
    val text = preference.text
    if (TextUtils.isEmpty(text)) {
        "Not set"
    } else {
        "Length of saved value: " + text.length
    }
}

I found this way to make EditTextPreference from support library handle "%s" in summary (as ListPreference already handles):

public class EditTextPreference extends android.support.v7.preference.EditTextPreference {
    public EditTextPreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    public void setText(String text) {
        super.setText(text);
        notifyChanged();
    }

    @Override
    public CharSequence getSummary() {
        String text = super.getText();
        String summary = super.getSummary().toString();
        return String.format(summary, text == null ? "" : text);
    }
}

In xml it will look like this:

<com.example.yourapp.EditTextPreference
    android:defaultValue="1"
    android:key="cleanup_period"
    android:summary="Clean up messages after %s days"
    android:title="Clean up period" />

The concise solution by 1 line of code:

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

    bindPreferenceSummaryToValue(findPreference("mySetting"));

    // initialize summary
    sBindPreferenceSummaryToValueListener.onPreferenceChange(findPreference("mySetting"), 
        ((ListPreference) findPreference("mySetting")).getEntry());
}

Just add this line to your xml specification. app:useSimpleSummaryProvider="true"

For example:

<your.package.name.MyListPreference

android:key="noteInterval"
android:defaultValue="60"
android:title="Notification Interval"
android:entries="@array/noteInterval"
android:entryValues="@array/noteIntervalValues"
app:useSimpleSummaryProvider="true"

/>