I am creating an Android app that uses the Holo theme when available and falls back to the black theme when it isn\'t available. I am accomplishing this by using the value         
        
I solved this by using two separate layout files, one located in the layout folder and one located in layout-v11. They are almost the same except that they contain different values for the style attribute.
The first one looks like this (in layout):
    
    
 
The second one looks like this (in layout-v11):
    
    
 
I am not completely satisfied with this approach because of the amount of duplicate information. I would like to find a way to use ?android:attr/buttonBarButtonStyle as a parent style, but I couldn't find a way to accomplish this.