android-theme

Android 5.0 Lollipop added the ability to set a theme for different views (not just the Activity). android:theme="@style/MyAwesomeTheme" Is there a way to set the theme on a view dynamically? android:theme changes specific attributes specified in the theme resource. You could instantiate specific view using any overloaded constructor, like View(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) . which basically is what inflater does. For example v7.widget.Toolbar tries to create themed context out of resource android:theme right in the super call of the constructor, which

With Theme.Holo.Light as the base theme, a designer noticed that the default text colour is not black, but a dark grey ( #505050 ). We'd like to change it to black. Looking for a simple way to change the default to black everywhere in the app, I found that this works: <resources> <style name="MyAppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light"> <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/black</item> </style> </resources> Now, problem is , that also changes the colour of disabled items in Action Bar's overflow menu. How to override default text colour while still having disabled menu items look

In my project (Target API 21 with AppCompat support), I need to extend the EditText class. My problem is MyEditText class does not inherit EditText style customized with: <style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar" > <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item> <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/grey_light</item> <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/primary</item> <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/primary</item> </style> with @color/primary green Screenshot: line 1: EditText focused line 2: EditText not focused (enabled) line 3: MyEditText not

This question already has an answer here: Set theme color dynamically 5 answers Theme colors can be changed if multiple themes added in app and can be switched at run time easily. Other way is to change the color of actiobar, textview etc one by one of all the object. This way is very long and take lots of code. Simple way i found is to change colors declare in colors.xml file but i could not find a way programmatically or third party library to do that. Is there a way to do this. My Colors XML File: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <color name="colorPrimary">#ea1e63</color>

Currently I have an overflow menu which has default width: What I want is: I have tried changing the theme this way: <style name="MyWorkspaceDetailTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar"> <item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/MyPopupMenu</item> </style> <style name="MyPopupMenu" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ListPopupWindow"> <item name="android:dropDownWidth">30dp</item> </style> but didn't got any success. Please can anyone help. I was follwing this[ http://keepsafe.github.io/2014/11/19/building-a-custom-overflow-menu.html] tutorial but it did not mention way

Is it possible to set the theme of picker dialog ? import com.google.android.gms.common.AccountPicker; .... String[] accountTypes = new String[]{"com.google"}; Intent intent = AccountPicker.newChooseAccountIntent(null, null, accountTypes, false, null, null, null, null); activity.startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE_PICK_ACCOUNT); My base app theme is android:Theme.Light but that dialog is dark. Thanks. If you wish to change the theme of the dialog, you should change the newChooseAccountIntent to zza and add two integer arguments. The first one is for overriding the theme and setting it