Theme/Style is not applied when inflater used with ApplicationContext

Question

I have theme that specifies textColor for TextView as red.

I am using LayoutInflater to instantiate TextView. The problem is that styles are not applied to TextView

Answer 1

I usually come across this issue on inflating a custom view. Here is what I personally do to keep the same theme of the activity in the CustomView

public class CustomView extends ViewGroup{

public CustomView (Context context) {
    super(context);
    init(context);
}

public CustomView (Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    init(context);
}

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

@TargetApi(21)
public CustomView (Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
    init(context);
}

private void init(Context context) {
    LayoutInflater  mInflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    View v = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.review_list_item, this, true);
    //rest of view initialization       
}   
}