Got it. To answer all of my own questions:
1) ADT layout editor doesn't show the result of when you set a style property. 2) http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.styleable.html is everything that can be an item in a style. 3) http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html are all the parent styles that you can extend. 4) android:Theme is the default theme. 5) The following code works fine. <resources> <style name="MenuButton" parent="android:Widget.Button"> <item name="android:textAppearance">@style/MenuButtonText</item> </style> <style name="MenuButtonText"> <item name="android:textSize">12pt</item> <item name="android:textColor">#FFF</item> </style> </resources> <Button android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:width="220px" android:text="@string/some_string" android:id="@+id/my_button" android:height="50px" android:layout_marginTop="10px" style="@style/MenuButton" /> On Jun 3, 2:22 pm, Robert Green <rbgrn....@gmail.com> wrote: > Also, When I say that, "nothing happens" when I do the above example, > I'm saying that nothing happens in the ADT editor. I haven't tried > running it like that, I've just tried to see it work in the preview. > > Should a style setting show up in the ADT layout editor? > > On Jun 3, 2:09 pm, Robert Green <rbgrn....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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.htmlandcan 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
