Re: [android-developers] Is there a way to refer to a group of attributes

2010-01-17 Thread Ray Benjamin
That helps, at least it reduces the clutter. What isn't covered by styles I may be able to handle using values. If I have all the attributes reference the same values, at least there will only be one place it has to be changed, and thus a lot fewer possible breakage points. :) Thanks for the

Re: [android-developers] Is there a way to refer to a group of attributes

2010-01-17 Thread Frank Weiss
Have you looked into Themes and Styles: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html If the attributes are not related to that, other approaches would be: inflater hook, attribute injection at runtime, generate the layout xml files with XSLT. On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ray Benj

[android-developers] Is there a way to refer to a group of attributes

2010-01-17 Thread Ray Benjamin
In creating a layout file, I have 25 buttons that all use the same attributes except for ID. It seems like there should be some way to package up all those attributes and use a reference to them, but I can't recall how. Been a while since I did a lot with XML. Can someone help? Thanks, Ray --