android custom view attributes not working after switch to gradle

Question

so I recently migrated to gradle now my custom view attributes return null

my project looks like this

--custom_icon_view // library that holds the custom view wi

Answer 1

If you are grabbing attributes in your custom view's init method with hard references to that specific namespace then changing to res-auto will break that. Instead, you will need to change those references also to res-auto. Or the preferred method is to just grab the typed interface. For example, in my project this:

textStyle = attrs.getAttributeIntValue("http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.bodybuilding.mobile", "textStyle", 10);
shadowInner = attrs.getAttributeBooleanValue("http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.bodybuilding.mobile", "shadowInner", true);
shadowOuter = attrs.getAttributeBooleanValue("http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.bodybuilding.mobile", "shadowOuter", false);
allowResize = attrs.getAttributeBooleanValue("http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.bodybuilding.mobile", "allowResize", true);

Became either this:

textStyle = attrs.getAttributeIntValue("http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto", "textStyle", 10);
shadowInner = attrs.getAttributeBooleanValue("http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto", "shadowInner", true);
shadowOuter = attrs.getAttributeBooleanValue("http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto", "shadowOuter", false);
allowResize = attrs.getAttributeBooleanValue("http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto", "allowResize", true);

but preferably this:

TypedArray a = getContext().obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.BBcomButton);
textStyle = a.getInt(R.styleable.BBcomButton_textStyle, 10);
shadowInner = a.getBoolean(R.styleable.BBcomButton_shadowInner, true);
shadowOuter = a.getBoolean(R.styleable.BBcomButton_shadowOuter, false);
shadowInnerColor = a.getColor(R.styleable.BBcomButton_shadowInnerColor, 0xff000000);
shadowOuterColor = a.getColor(R.styleable.BBcomButton_shadowOuterColor, 0xff000000);
allowResize = a.getBoolean(R.styleable.BBcomButton_allowResize, true);

To make it work