Android - margins specified in custom style not taking effect

Question

I wish to have the default margin for EditText\'s be 10dp. Therefore, in my styles.xml file I set up the following:

Answer 1

Just in case it is useful for others, I'd like bring the answer by Oliv to another SO question here. I was trying to add margins to all buttons and found layout_margin does not work.

The theme:

The button style:

Here is button_background.xml where the answer by Oliv to another SO question is used to set the margin to 2dp: :

    
        
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