Consistent UI color in all Android devices

Question

I noticed the UI color (eg Button background/text color) all changes from device to device, based on the current theme that is being used in a device.

What is the be

Answer 1

Best practice is to apply a custom theme to your application, and override as much of the default properties as you need.

Almost everything can be changed, except

• The Menu
• Some properties of AlertDialog (these can be changed using a custom dialog)
• OS provided views such as the Quick Search Bar (QSB)

If you like the look of the default SDK resources then you can find these in sdk_folder/platforms/android-9/data/res/ (replace 9 with the SDK version you want the resources from) - copy the ones you want into your App and reference those.

You can take a look at the theme the SDK uses:

• themes.xml
• styles.xml