Setting Android Background & Persistence Menu Bar - Using attribute on older versions causes crash - Is there a theme /pattern approach?

Question

In Android 3.0, the concept of \"checked\" can be rendered using an \"activated\" background. This gives you the persistent bar you see when you tap on a list fragment, prov

Answer 1

Styles are your friend....

Have two values directories, one is values-v11, the other the default values.

Each values directory contains a styles.xml, the difference being that the default values one contains;

Then you can have a single layout which uses;

style="@style/listViewActivatedStyle"

and the appropriate one is selected.