How to get an Android ListPreference defined in Xml whose values are integers?

Is it possible to define a ListPreference in Xml and retrieve the value from SharedPreferences using getInt? Here is my Xml:

<ListPreference android:key="@string/prefGestureAccuracyKey"
    android:title="@string/prefGestureAccuracyTitle" android:summary="@string/prefGestureAccuracyDesc"
    android:entries="@array/prefNumberAccuracyLabels" android:entryValues="@array/prefNumberAccuracyValues"
    android:dialogTitle="@string/prefGestureAccuracyDialog"
    android:persistent="true" android:defaultValue="2"
    android:shouldDisableView="false" />

And I want to get the value with something like: int val = sharedPrefs.getInt(key, defaultValue).

At the moment I have to use getString and parse the result.