Ok I think I may understand the problem but leads me down a very frustrating path. I think that if I were to set a style on a view, that style would need to inherit the default style and then override the values that I want to have custom. That's fine and all, but I have no idea where this magic list of default styles is or what the values are in it.
I have scoured the developer's documentation starting here - http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html and can not find this information anywhere. Basically, I have no idea what style to extend and I can't find the resources I need to figure it out. I don't even know what the default theme is. Does anyone? On Jun 3, 12:19 pm, Robert Green <rbgrn....@gmail.com> wrote: > I finally decided to use styles and themes instead of tediously > setting attributes for each individual view. I was able to get the > style to work when I set it on android:textAppearance, but when I try > to just set it right on the style attribute like below, it no longer > applies. This is happening to me for Buttons as well as TextViews. > What I want is to be able to have a few different styles for text > views and buttons and then just set the style on each button or text > view. The style will need to define textSize, textColor, background > and maybe a few others. Since background and some other things are > not textAppearance, I need to use the general style attribute. > > Here's my current attempt: > > In one of my menu layouts, I have a title, which looks like this: > > <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/ > title_1_text" > android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" > android:id="@+id/title" > android:layout_marginBottom="20px" > android:layout_marginTop="10px" > style="@style/MenuTitle"></TextView> > > then in res/values/styles.xml > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <resources> > <style name="MenuTitle"> > <item name="android:textSize">16pt</item> > <item name="android:textColor">#FFF</item> > </style> > </resources> > > Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong here? I would think that the style > attribute being set to the MenuTitle style would then apply the > android:textSize and android:textColor, but I appear to be missing > something. > > I have no themes defined yet. I'm considering doing that once I get > this working because all of the layout backgrounds and button styles > in my app will be the same. > > Thanks for any help! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
