I have a static layout file, let's say something like :
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="56dp"
android:layout_height="56dp"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_marginBottom="24dp"
android:src="#drawable/some_drawable" />
<TextView
android:id="#id/placeholder_error_info"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="something"
/>
</LinearLayout>
I would like to be able to reuse this layout file multiple times throughout my application but change the text & src attributes according to each usecase.
I don't want to duplicate the layout files and a custom View for this seems overkill. Is there a solution in the framework for this ?
I would abandon the LinearLayout concept – you can go easily with the TextView only.
Move all global attributes to style
<style name="TextWithImage">
<item name="android:layout_width">match_parent</item>
<item name="android:layout_height">match_parent</item>
<item name="android:drawablePadding">24dp</item>
</style>
And in your layouts use this TextView with overriden text and drawable
<TextView
style="#style/TextWithImage"
android:drawableTop="#drawable/some_drawable"
android:text="something" />
This does not have any disadvantages over <include> AFAIK. The only issue is you dont have full control over the image size, but if your drawables have 56dp (and they should) you are completely fine.
I assume you are inflating this layout in your Activity's onCreate(). You will need to get a reference to the ImageView and TextView in your code after the layout is inflated, and then you can call methods on them.
First, add an id to the ImageView: android:id="#+id/image.
Then, in your Java code:
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// inflate the layout
setContentView(R.layout.your_layout);
// get references
ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image);
TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.placeholder_error_info);
// set properties
imageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.some_drawable);
textView.setText("something");
}
You can replace the calls to setImageResource and setText with anything you like. Good luck!
Related
I experience strange situation: when I put check box by code, it has diffrent style then check box added by xml file.
this is the dynamically adding the check boxes:
LinearLayout checkboxGroup = (LinearLayout) v.findViewById(R.id.category_checkbox_group);
for(String category : categories) {
CheckBox checkBox = new CheckBox(getActivity());
checkBox.setText("dynamically added");
checkBox.setOnClickListener(mCategoryChecked);
checkboxGroup.addView(checkBox);
}
fragment of xml:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/category_checkbox_group"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:orientation="vertical">
<CheckBox
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="xml added" />
</LinearLayout>
So after all I have one checkbox form xml and few checkboxes from code.
The screen looks like below:
so my questions are:
what style is default for dynamic views?
how to apply this style to xml's views?
is a easy way to change box in check box?
The style for the dynamically added view depends on the context. In your situation the context is your activity, so the style of the added view is the style of your activity. If you didn't setup a theme for your activity, then it is the theme of your application, that you defined in your styles.xml. Example:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
</style>
You most probably inflated the xml layout from a different context. If you are inflating it from the same context like your added views, the views should have the same style. Try to check this.
You can also set a style for one view in xml like that:
<View
style="#style/Example" />
How do I "cascade" the value of a custom attribute from a parent view to its child view?
This is easiest to explain using an example:
<com.example.CustomLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
app:percent="35" >
<com.example.CustomView
android:id="#+id/customView1"
app:percent="how-to-get-app:percent-value-here???"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</com.example.CustomLayout>
Here, CustomLayout extends LinearLayout. I have defined a custom attribute "percent" in attrs.xml using <declare-styleable> element. As you can see, I set percent to 35 in the XML for CustomLayout.
I now want to pass in the same value to CustomView (which extends View) and which I will include in CustomLayout. I am unable to find a way to do this in XML (it is easy to do this in code though).
I tried the following:
app:percent="#attr/percent"
app:percent="?attr/percent"
Both of these (expectedly) fail with NumberFormatException at TypedArray#getInt().
So, any ideas on how to get this to work?
Although the idea comes a bit late and the method is not straight forward, I think it's still worth sharing. We can put custom attributes into a theme, so the attributes can be passed to all child views from the parent view where the theme is used (i.e., the attributes exist within the View Group).
Example as follows:
<integer name="percentage">35</integer>
<style name="CustomTheme" parent="suitable theme for your case">
<item name="percent">#integer/percentage</item>
</style>
<com.example.CustomLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:theme="#style/CustomTheme" >
<com.example.CustomView
android:id="#+id/customView1"
app:percent="?attr/percent" <!--Note: that's how it refers to the value,
however, re-assign the attribute value here is meaningless as attribute percent
should exist in all child views now. You can retrieve its value via
Theme.obtainStyledAttributes(R.style.CustomTheme, new int[] {R.attr.percent})
in every child view-->
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</com.example.CustomLayout>
I am making a custom titlebar using the following xml file:
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/myTitle"
android:text="custom title bar"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/background" />
And inside my activity's onCreate() i have the following code:
public class CustomTitleBar extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.mytitle);
}
}
The title bar is coming no problem.The image i am setting as background(the name of image is background too as u can see in above xml) is also coming.But the problem is in both right and left side of the image there is remaining a little gap i.e the image is not covering the whole width of parent though the layout_width has been set to "fill_parent".
Anyone any idea.plz help.
The little gap to the left/right is added by the framework since the default windowTitleBackgroundStyle in the standard theme used a 9-patch drawable with that padding. Here's an example on how to override this:
In AndroidManifest.xml, add an android:theme for your Activity:
<activity
android:theme="#style/MyCustomTitlebar"
android:label="Custom Titlebar"
android:name=".CustomTitlebar" />
Then define the custom theme somewhere in your resources (for example in res/values/themes.xml):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resources
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style
name="MyCustomTitlebar"
parent="#android:style/Theme">
<item
name="android:windowTitleBackgroundStyle">#style/MyBackground</item>
</style>
<style
name="MyBackground">
<item
name="android:background">#drawable/background</item>
</style>
</resources>
Since we move the background to the style, we can modify your mytitle.xml layout to the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TextView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/myTitle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="custom title bar" />
You might need to adjust either your background (so it has some padding if it's a 9-patch) or just set the padding in the mytitle.xml layout (using paddingLeft/Right/Top/Bottom).
Check this post for Custom Header that is Designed for Different Device densities.
Also design you Header using Styles and themes . Custom Header for Multiple Devices
I'm getting a view from the XML with the code below:
Button view = (Button) LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.section_button, null);
I would like to set a "style" for the button how can I do that in java since a want to use several style for each button I will use.
First of all, you don't need to use a layout inflater to create a simple Button. You can just use:
button = new Button(context);
If you want to style the button you have 2 choices: the simplest one is to just specify all the elements in code, like many of the other answers suggest:
button.setTextColor(Color.RED);
button.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 18);
The other option is to define the style in XML, and apply it to the button. In the general case, you can use a ContextThemeWrapper for this:
ContextThemeWrapper newContext = new ContextThemeWrapper(baseContext, R.style.MyStyle);
button = new Button(newContext);
To change the text-related attributes on a TextView (or its subclasses like Button) there is a special method:
button.setTextAppearance(R.style.MyTextStyle);
Or, if you need to support devices pre API-23 (Android 6.0)
button.setTextAppearance(context, R.style.MyTextStyle);
This method cannot be used to change all attributes; for example to change padding you need to use a ContextThemeWrapper. But for text color, size, etc. you can use setTextAppearance.
Generally you can't change styles programmatically; you can set the look of a screen, or part of a layout, or individual button in your XML layout using themes or styles. Themes can, however, be applied programmatically.
There is also such a thing as a StateListDrawable which lets you define different drawables for each state the your Button can be in, whether focused, selected, pressed, disabled and so on.
For example, to get your button to change colour when it's pressed, you could define an XML file called res/drawable/my_button.xml directory like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/btn_pressed" />
<item
android:state_pressed="false"
android:drawable="#drawable/btn_normal" />
</selector>
You can then apply this selector to a Button by setting the property android:background="#drawable/my_button".
Yes, you can use for example in a button
Button b = new Button(this);
b.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.selector_test);
You can do style attributes like so:
Button myButton = new Button(this, null,android.R.attr.buttonBarButtonStyle);
in place of:
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/btn"
style="?android:attr/buttonBarButtonStyle"
/>
If you are using the Support library, you could simply use
TextViewCompat.setTextAppearance(textView, R.style.AppTheme_TextStyle_ButtonDefault_Whatever);
for TextViews and Buttons. There are similar classes for the rest of Views :-)
Depending on what style attributes you'd like to change you may be able to use the Paris library:
Button view = (Button) LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.section_button, null);
Paris.style(view).apply(R.style.YourStyle);
Many attributes like background, padding, textSize, textColor, etc. are supported.
List of currently supported attributes
Installation instructions
Disclaimer: I authored the library.
The answer by #Dayerman and #h_rules is right.
To give an elaborated example with code,
In drawable folder, create an xml file called button_disabled.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" android:padding="10dp">
<solid android:color="#color/silver"/>
<corners
android:bottomRightRadius="20dp"
android:bottomLeftRadius="20dp"
android:topLeftRadius="20dp"
android:topRightRadius="20dp"/>
</shape>
Then in Java,
((Button) findViewById(R.id.my_button)).setEnabled(false);
((Button) findViewById(R.id.my_button)).setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.button_disabled);
This will set the button's property to disabled and sets the color to silver.
[The color is defined in color.xml as:
<resources>
<color name="silver">#C0C0C0</color>
</resources>
For anyone looking for a Material answer see this SO post: Coloring Buttons in Android with Material Design and AppCompat
I used a combination of this answer to set the default text color of the button to white for my button:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32238489/3075340
Then this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/34355919/3075340 to programmatically set the background color. The code for that is:
ViewCompat.setBackgroundTintList(your_colored_button,
ContextCompat.getColorStateList(getContext(),R.color.your_custom_color));
your_colored_button can be just a regular Button or a AppCompat button if you wish - I tested the above code with both types of buttons and it works.
EDIT: I found that pre-lollipop devices do not work with the above code. See this post on how to add support for pre-lollipop devices: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30277424/3075340
Basically do this:
Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
ColorStateList c = ContextCompat.getColorStateList(mContext, R.color.your_custom_color;
Drawable d = b.getBackground();
if (b instanceof AppCompatButton) {
// appcompat button replaces tint of its drawable background
((AppCompatButton)b).setSupportBackgroundTintList(c);
} else if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
// Lollipop button replaces tint of its drawable background
// however it is not equal to d.setTintList(c)
b.setBackgroundTintList(c);
} else {
// this should only happen if
// * manually creating a Button instead of AppCompatButton
// * LayoutInflater did not translate a Button to AppCompatButton
d = DrawableCompat.wrap(d);
DrawableCompat.setTintList(d, c);
b.setBackgroundDrawable(d);
}
At runtime, you know what style you want your button to have. So beforehand, in xml in the layout folder, you can have all ready to go buttons with the styles you need. So in the layout folder, you might have a file named: button_style_1.xml. The contents of that file might look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Button
android:id="#+id/styleOneButton"
style="#style/FirstStyle" />
If you are working with fragments, then in onCreateView you inflate that button, like:
Button firstStyleBtn = (Button) inflater.inflate(R.layout.button_style_1, container, false);
where container is the ViewGroup container associated with the onCreateView method you override when creating your fragment.
Need two more such buttons? You create them like this:
Button secondFirstStyleBtn = (Button) inflater.inflate(R.layout.button_style_1, container, false);
Button thirdFirstStyleBtn = (Button) inflater.inflate(R.layout.button_style_1, container, false);
You can customize those buttons:
secondFirstStyleBtn.setText("My Second");
thirdFirstStyleBtn.setText("My Third");
Then you add your customized, stylized buttons to the layout container you also inflated in the onCreateView method:
_stylizedButtonsContainer = (LinearLayout) rootView.findViewById(R.id.stylizedButtonsContainer);
_stylizedButtonsContainer.addView(firstStyleBtn);
_stylizedButtonsContainer.addView(secondFirstStyleBtn);
_stylizedButtonsContainer.addView(thirdFirstStyleBtn);
And that's how you can dynamically work with stylized buttons.
I made a helper interface for this using the holder pattern.
public interface StyleHolder<V extends View> {
void applyStyle(V view);
}
Now for every style you want to use pragmatically just implement the interface, for example:
public class ButtonStyleHolder implements StyleHolder<Button> {
private final Drawable background;
private final ColorStateList textColor;
private final int textSize;
public ButtonStyleHolder(Context context) {
TypedArray ta = context.obtainStyledAttributes(R.style.button, R.styleable.ButtonStyleHolder);
Resources resources = context.getResources();
background = ta.getDrawable(ta.getIndex(R.styleable.ButtonStyleHolder_android_background));
textColor = ta.getColorStateList(ta.getIndex(R.styleable.ButtonStyleHolder_android_textColor));
textSize = ta.getDimensionPixelSize(
ta.getIndex(R.styleable.ButtonStyleHolder_android_textSize),
resources.getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.standard_text_size)
);
// Don't forget to recycle!
ta.recycle();
}
#Override
public void applyStyle(Button btn) {
btn.setBackground(background);
btn.setTextColor(textColor);
btn.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, textSize);
}
}
Declare a stylable in your attrs.xml, the styleable for this example is:
<declare-styleable name="ButtonStyleHolder">
<attr name="android:background" />
<attr name="android:textSize" />
<attr name="android:textColor" />
</declare-styleable>
Here is the style declared in styles.xml:
<style name="button">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/button</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/light_text_color</item>
<item name="android:textSize">#dimen/standard_text_size</item>
</style>
And finally the implementation of the style holder:
Button btn = new Button(context);
StyleHolder<Button> styleHolder = new ButtonStyleHolder(context);
styleHolder.applyStyle(btn);
I found this very helpful as it can be easily reused and keeps the code clean and verbose, i would recommend using this only as a local variable so we can allow the garbage collector to do its job once we're done with setting all the styles.
I faced the same problem recently. here is how i solved it.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<!-- This is the special two colors background START , after this LinearLayout, you can add all view that have it for main background-->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:weightSum="2"
android:background="#FFFFFF"
android:orientation="horizontal"
>
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#0000FF" />
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#F000F0" />
</LinearLayout>
<!-- This is the special two colors background END-->
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="This Text is centered with a special backgound,
You can add as much elements as you want as child of this RelativeLayout"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:textSize="20sp" />
</RelativeLayout>
I used a LinearLayout with android:weightSum="2"
I gave to the two child elements android:layout_weight="1"
(I gave each 50% of the parent space(width & height))
And finally, i gave the two child element different background colors to have the final effect.
Thanks !
I'm getting a view from the XML with the code below:
Button view = (Button) LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.section_button, null);
I would like to set a "style" for the button how can I do that in java since a want to use several style for each button I will use.
First of all, you don't need to use a layout inflater to create a simple Button. You can just use:
button = new Button(context);
If you want to style the button you have 2 choices: the simplest one is to just specify all the elements in code, like many of the other answers suggest:
button.setTextColor(Color.RED);
button.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 18);
The other option is to define the style in XML, and apply it to the button. In the general case, you can use a ContextThemeWrapper for this:
ContextThemeWrapper newContext = new ContextThemeWrapper(baseContext, R.style.MyStyle);
button = new Button(newContext);
To change the text-related attributes on a TextView (or its subclasses like Button) there is a special method:
button.setTextAppearance(R.style.MyTextStyle);
Or, if you need to support devices pre API-23 (Android 6.0)
button.setTextAppearance(context, R.style.MyTextStyle);
This method cannot be used to change all attributes; for example to change padding you need to use a ContextThemeWrapper. But for text color, size, etc. you can use setTextAppearance.
Generally you can't change styles programmatically; you can set the look of a screen, or part of a layout, or individual button in your XML layout using themes or styles. Themes can, however, be applied programmatically.
There is also such a thing as a StateListDrawable which lets you define different drawables for each state the your Button can be in, whether focused, selected, pressed, disabled and so on.
For example, to get your button to change colour when it's pressed, you could define an XML file called res/drawable/my_button.xml directory like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/btn_pressed" />
<item
android:state_pressed="false"
android:drawable="#drawable/btn_normal" />
</selector>
You can then apply this selector to a Button by setting the property android:background="#drawable/my_button".
Yes, you can use for example in a button
Button b = new Button(this);
b.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.selector_test);
You can do style attributes like so:
Button myButton = new Button(this, null,android.R.attr.buttonBarButtonStyle);
in place of:
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/btn"
style="?android:attr/buttonBarButtonStyle"
/>
If you are using the Support library, you could simply use
TextViewCompat.setTextAppearance(textView, R.style.AppTheme_TextStyle_ButtonDefault_Whatever);
for TextViews and Buttons. There are similar classes for the rest of Views :-)
Depending on what style attributes you'd like to change you may be able to use the Paris library:
Button view = (Button) LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.section_button, null);
Paris.style(view).apply(R.style.YourStyle);
Many attributes like background, padding, textSize, textColor, etc. are supported.
List of currently supported attributes
Installation instructions
Disclaimer: I authored the library.
The answer by #Dayerman and #h_rules is right.
To give an elaborated example with code,
In drawable folder, create an xml file called button_disabled.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" android:padding="10dp">
<solid android:color="#color/silver"/>
<corners
android:bottomRightRadius="20dp"
android:bottomLeftRadius="20dp"
android:topLeftRadius="20dp"
android:topRightRadius="20dp"/>
</shape>
Then in Java,
((Button) findViewById(R.id.my_button)).setEnabled(false);
((Button) findViewById(R.id.my_button)).setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.button_disabled);
This will set the button's property to disabled and sets the color to silver.
[The color is defined in color.xml as:
<resources>
<color name="silver">#C0C0C0</color>
</resources>
For anyone looking for a Material answer see this SO post: Coloring Buttons in Android with Material Design and AppCompat
I used a combination of this answer to set the default text color of the button to white for my button:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32238489/3075340
Then this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/34355919/3075340 to programmatically set the background color. The code for that is:
ViewCompat.setBackgroundTintList(your_colored_button,
ContextCompat.getColorStateList(getContext(),R.color.your_custom_color));
your_colored_button can be just a regular Button or a AppCompat button if you wish - I tested the above code with both types of buttons and it works.
EDIT: I found that pre-lollipop devices do not work with the above code. See this post on how to add support for pre-lollipop devices: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30277424/3075340
Basically do this:
Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
ColorStateList c = ContextCompat.getColorStateList(mContext, R.color.your_custom_color;
Drawable d = b.getBackground();
if (b instanceof AppCompatButton) {
// appcompat button replaces tint of its drawable background
((AppCompatButton)b).setSupportBackgroundTintList(c);
} else if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
// Lollipop button replaces tint of its drawable background
// however it is not equal to d.setTintList(c)
b.setBackgroundTintList(c);
} else {
// this should only happen if
// * manually creating a Button instead of AppCompatButton
// * LayoutInflater did not translate a Button to AppCompatButton
d = DrawableCompat.wrap(d);
DrawableCompat.setTintList(d, c);
b.setBackgroundDrawable(d);
}
At runtime, you know what style you want your button to have. So beforehand, in xml in the layout folder, you can have all ready to go buttons with the styles you need. So in the layout folder, you might have a file named: button_style_1.xml. The contents of that file might look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Button
android:id="#+id/styleOneButton"
style="#style/FirstStyle" />
If you are working with fragments, then in onCreateView you inflate that button, like:
Button firstStyleBtn = (Button) inflater.inflate(R.layout.button_style_1, container, false);
where container is the ViewGroup container associated with the onCreateView method you override when creating your fragment.
Need two more such buttons? You create them like this:
Button secondFirstStyleBtn = (Button) inflater.inflate(R.layout.button_style_1, container, false);
Button thirdFirstStyleBtn = (Button) inflater.inflate(R.layout.button_style_1, container, false);
You can customize those buttons:
secondFirstStyleBtn.setText("My Second");
thirdFirstStyleBtn.setText("My Third");
Then you add your customized, stylized buttons to the layout container you also inflated in the onCreateView method:
_stylizedButtonsContainer = (LinearLayout) rootView.findViewById(R.id.stylizedButtonsContainer);
_stylizedButtonsContainer.addView(firstStyleBtn);
_stylizedButtonsContainer.addView(secondFirstStyleBtn);
_stylizedButtonsContainer.addView(thirdFirstStyleBtn);
And that's how you can dynamically work with stylized buttons.
I made a helper interface for this using the holder pattern.
public interface StyleHolder<V extends View> {
void applyStyle(V view);
}
Now for every style you want to use pragmatically just implement the interface, for example:
public class ButtonStyleHolder implements StyleHolder<Button> {
private final Drawable background;
private final ColorStateList textColor;
private final int textSize;
public ButtonStyleHolder(Context context) {
TypedArray ta = context.obtainStyledAttributes(R.style.button, R.styleable.ButtonStyleHolder);
Resources resources = context.getResources();
background = ta.getDrawable(ta.getIndex(R.styleable.ButtonStyleHolder_android_background));
textColor = ta.getColorStateList(ta.getIndex(R.styleable.ButtonStyleHolder_android_textColor));
textSize = ta.getDimensionPixelSize(
ta.getIndex(R.styleable.ButtonStyleHolder_android_textSize),
resources.getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.standard_text_size)
);
// Don't forget to recycle!
ta.recycle();
}
#Override
public void applyStyle(Button btn) {
btn.setBackground(background);
btn.setTextColor(textColor);
btn.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, textSize);
}
}
Declare a stylable in your attrs.xml, the styleable for this example is:
<declare-styleable name="ButtonStyleHolder">
<attr name="android:background" />
<attr name="android:textSize" />
<attr name="android:textColor" />
</declare-styleable>
Here is the style declared in styles.xml:
<style name="button">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/button</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/light_text_color</item>
<item name="android:textSize">#dimen/standard_text_size</item>
</style>
And finally the implementation of the style holder:
Button btn = new Button(context);
StyleHolder<Button> styleHolder = new ButtonStyleHolder(context);
styleHolder.applyStyle(btn);
I found this very helpful as it can be easily reused and keeps the code clean and verbose, i would recommend using this only as a local variable so we can allow the garbage collector to do its job once we're done with setting all the styles.
I faced the same problem recently. here is how i solved it.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<!-- This is the special two colors background START , after this LinearLayout, you can add all view that have it for main background-->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:weightSum="2"
android:background="#FFFFFF"
android:orientation="horizontal"
>
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#0000FF" />
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#F000F0" />
</LinearLayout>
<!-- This is the special two colors background END-->
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="This Text is centered with a special backgound,
You can add as much elements as you want as child of this RelativeLayout"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:textSize="20sp" />
</RelativeLayout>
I used a LinearLayout with android:weightSum="2"
I gave to the two child elements android:layout_weight="1"
(I gave each 50% of the parent space(width & height))
And finally, i gave the two child element different background colors to have the final effect.
Thanks !