Note: you really really should not be creating these arrays yourself,
because the attributes need to be in a specific order for them to work. Use
<declare-styleable> in one of your resource files (usually in attrs.xml
where you declare your attributes) to define the sets of resources you want
to retrieve.
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Stefan <skyntc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That was exactly what I needed. Thank you very much for your help.
>
>
> In case somebody has a similar need this is the code that worked for
> me:
>
> R.attr.PrimaryColor, R.attr.PrimaryReadColor are the styled attributes
> (of type Color State List in my case) that have a specific "value" in
> each theme
>
> TypedArray atts = context.obtainStyledAttributes(new int[]
> { R.attr.PrimaryColor, R.attr.PrimaryReadColor});
> ....
> _primaryColor = atts.getColorStateList(0);
> _primaryReadColor = atts.getColorStateList(1);
>
> Stefan
>
> On Nov 22, 2:48 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> > Resources does not let you access themes -- it doesn't know about a
> Theme,
> > since there is one Resources object for you application, but an arbitrary
> > number of themes.
> >
> > Typically to load themed resources, you would do what standard views and
> > widgets do -- declare a styleable array of all of the attributes you want
> to
> > retrieve, and use Context.obtainStyledAttributes or related to retrieve
> > theme. The LabelView API demo shows an example of this:
> >
> > http://developer.android.com/guide/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/a...
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Stefan <skyntc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > In my case I need to be able apply a color conditionally (for example
> > > based if an item is read or unread) so I need to be able to read the
> > > "read" and "unread" colors from the current theme and apply them
> > > appropriately.
> >
> > > I gave the color special attribute name in my \attr xml file and
> > > assigned it different values in 2 different themes.
> > > if I do getResources().getColorStateList( <my attribute resource ID>)
> > > it fails because it can't find the resource. It seems like something
> > > needs to first resolve the attribute Id to the Id of the resource in
> > > the current theme, but I am not sure what does that.
> >
> > > Stefan
> >
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