Hmmh, also no answer to this question on themes. Maybe the answer cannot be given with two lines? So let me explain what I would expect step by step and you stop me were I deviate from the Golden Path? I'll try yes/no questions.
In the simplest terms I would expect that in every place I can specify a color in RGB (#ffff) I could also specify a symbolic name instead. This should work like @color/xyz, but with one more level of indirection that lets me switch between themes, like dark and light. Is that possible? I would expect those themes to be applicable to (a) widgets, (b) drawables (see the mentioned example) and (c) when I need to style something myself like HTML. Are (a) - (c) possible? Furthermore I would expect that I could define style keys myself, but I got the impression that only keys from the "android" namespace can be used? That lead me to believe that you can't define abstract colors, but only styles for specific attributes used in the widgets' implementations. And again, if there is any meaningful documentation I would be happy to read it. Just send me the link or name of the book. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Mariano Kamp <mariano.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have trouble > (example<http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/5b4ce3e49a1b63d2/>) > wrapping my head around styles/themes. Can somebody help me or point me to > actual documentation? > > Let's say I have a drawable that I want to use as the background of a > layout: > > <shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; > android:shape="rectangle"> > <gradient android:startColor="#9F9FA4" android:endColor="#66FFFFFF" > android:angle="270" /> > </shape> > > > Now I want to have a dark and a light theme. Depending on the chosen theme I > want to have a different value for startColor and endColor. How do I do that? > I am aware of extending themes, but what do I put into the items? How do I > reference those new values then? > > > Cheers, > > Mariano > > -- 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
