android-styles

i'm trying to define a theme for an appwidget, and have it applied at the application level. i have a theme like, <style name="theme.dark"> <item name="android"background">#000000</item> </style> in my manifest, i set android:theme="@style/theme.dark" at the application. however, when i run the appwidget, it does not pick up the items from the style. i tried setting style="@style/theme.dark" on an individual element in my view layout, and that does work ... but that's not what i want. i don't want to call out a specific style="..." for each element in my view. this page, http://www

I'm trying to style a TimePickerDialog for sdk 21+ (Lollipop). So far I've figured out how to change the default colorscheme in XML: <style name="TimePickerTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog"> <item name="colorPrimary">#ff2d6073</item> <!-- no effect --> <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#ff2d6073</item> <!-- no effect --> <item name="colorAccent">#ff2d6073</item> <item name="android:textColor">#ffD0D102</item> <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#ffD0D102</item> </style> This works but I'm looking for a guide or documentation for all the properties I can change. AccentColor does

In my Android java code, how can I reference the color "colorPrimary" set in my theme? I have the following theme definition: <!-- Application theme. --> <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme"> <item name="colorPrimary">@color/myColor1</item> <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/myColor2</item> <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/myColor3</item> <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/myColor4</item> </style> I could reference the color resource directly (R.color.myColor1), but I would prefer to reference the theme's primaryColor setting, so that it stays consistent if the

In my app, I have a searchview that displays search suggestions. I want the dropdown/spinner and text to be a particular color. Currently the only change I've been able to make is the text color of the inputted text via the following: <style name="MyApp.AutoCompleteTextView" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Light.AutoCompleteTextView"> <item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item> <item name="android:textCursorDrawable">@null</item> <item name="android:background">@color/myBackgroundColor</item> </style> The app currently displays the searchview results like this: What I would like to know is how

I want to give the user the opportunity to select wich color skin will have the app. For example, i whould implement a black skin with black colours with different tonalities and also a white skin with withe tonalities. Which whould be the best approach to achieve this? For example i know that there is a colors.xml file in Android that should contain the colours of your app. Whould be a way to have two colors files or something and to use one or other depending of user selection? Maybe a styles.xml file? Please tell me your opinion about which whould be the best approach to achieve this Thank

May I know what is the difference between styles.xml and themes.xml ? To me, they just look same as both XML are in the same format. <style name="... <item name="... So, in my app which provide customization coloring, size, drawable, ... do I need both styles.xml and themes.xml as well? How should I decide which XML to put in which file? Out of the whole page of the Styles and Themes . You may be looking for this line. When you apply a style to a single View in the layout, the properties defined by the style are applied only to that View. If a style is applied to a ViewGroup, the child View