I want to customize my searchview edittext which expanded when I click on searchview icon to be like this image
And I tried the custom style to do that but I got this result in this image
The problems:
There is a blue vertical bar at the start of the edittext I need to remove it and make it appears only on a search query and after the querytext also I want to change the color of this vertical bar
I need to add a white search icon with specific padding of the hint and text query currently the white icon in the result screen disappears on search query
How I got this result?
I define searchViewStyle
<style name="SearchViewStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.SearchView">
<item name="searchIcon">#drawable/ic_baseline_dark_search_24</item>
<item name="closeIcon">#null</item>
<item name="goIcon">#drawable/ic_baseline_dark_search_24</item>
<item name="commitIcon">#drawable/ic_baseline_dark_search_24</item>
<item name="android:editTextColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorHint">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorHighlight">#color/red</item>
<item name="queryBackground">#drawable/radius_drawable</item>
<item name="searchHintIcon">#drawable/ic_baseline_search_24</item>
<item name="queryHint">"search_hint"</item>
</style>
I define searchview like this in my fragment layout
<androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView
android:id="#+id/searchView"
style="#style/SearchViewStyle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">
</androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView>
I define a custom drawable background for searchview
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners
android:radius="18dp"
/>
<solid
android:color="#4F4F4F"
/>
<padding
android:left="0dp"
android:top="0dp"
android:right="0dp"
android:bottom="0dp"
/>
<size
android:width="270dp"
android:height="60dp"
/>
</shape>
While I do not clearly understand what your requirements are exactly, I would like to point out one thing though.
For Applying a style to a SearchView we have to use the theme attribute, your code seems okay, maybe your changes are not being applied for now I believe. So try using the android:theme attribute for your style as follows. The rest of your requirements should easily come by to you with some trial and error I believe. Thanks.
<androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView
android:id="#+id/searchView"
android:theme="#style/SearchViewStyle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">
Here is how I would recommend you to update your style to get as close as possible to your design.
<style name="SearchViewStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.SearchView">
<item name="searchIcon">#drawable/ic_baseline_dark_search_24</item>
<item name="queryBackground">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="queryHint">"search_hint"</item>
<item name="iconifiedByDefault">false</item>
<item name="android:textColorHint">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:background">#drawable/radius_drawable</item>
</style>
And you can modify your drawable and get rid of the padding and size since you are using wrap_content in your layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<solid android:color="#4F4F4F" />
<corners android:radius="18dp" />
</shape>
You can use custom searchview in AppCompat SearchView . Copy searchview from this link searchview.xml
Then edit the xml or remove the extra margin from xml.
Add custom searchview layout like this:
<androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView
android:id="#+id/search"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:gravity="center"
app:layout="#layout/custom_search_view"
app:iconifiedByDefault="true"
app:queryBackground="#android:color/transparent"
app:queryHint="Search"
app:searchIcon="#drawable/search" />
I want to change the color of the circle of RadioButton in one of my projects, but I could not understand which property to set. The background color is black, so it gets invisible. I want to set the color of the circle to white.
It is simpler just setting the buttonTint color (only works on API level 21 or above):
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/radio"
android:checked="true"
android:buttonTint="#color/your_color"/>
In your values/colors.xml file, put your color, in this case a reddish one:
<color name="your_color">#e75748</color>
Result:
If you want to do it by code (also API 21 and above):
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21)
{
ColorStateList colorStateList = new ColorStateList(
new int[][]
{
new int[]{-android.R.attr.state_enabled}, // Disabled
new int[]{android.R.attr.state_enabled} // Enabled
},
new int[]
{
Color.BLACK, // disabled
Color.BLUE // enabled
}
);
radio.setButtonTintList(colorStateList); // set the color tint list
radio.invalidate(); // Could not be necessary
}
Update:
use this one instead
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatRadioButton
android:id="#+id/rbtn_test"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:buttonTint="#color/primary" />
Then add this line into parent layout or Alt + Enter in Android Studio to auto-add
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
A minimum example should look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatRadioButton
android:id="#+id/rbtn_test"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:buttonTint="#color/primary" />
</LinearLayout>
In your program, you should call it like this:
AppCompatRadioButton radioButton = (AppCompatRadioButton) view.findViewById(R.id.rbtn_test);
Basically, this kind of pattern can be applied for all AppCompact types such as AppCompatCheckBox, AppCompatButton, and so on.
Old Answer:
In order to support below android API 21, you can use AppCompatRadioButton. Then use setSupportButtonTintList method to change the color. This is my code snippet to create a radio button.
AppCompatRadioButton rb;
rb = new AppCompatRadioButton(mContext);
ColorStateList colorStateList = new ColorStateList(
new int[][]{
new int[]{-android.R.attr.state_checked},
new int[]{android.R.attr.state_checked}
},
new int[]{
Color.DKGRAY
, Color.rgb (242,81,112),
}
);
rb.setSupportButtonTintList(colorStateList);
Tested result at API 19:
See the Android reference link for more detail.
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatRadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:buttonTint="#color/Color" />
This is working on API pre 21 as well as post 21.
In your styles.xml put:
<!-- custom style -->
<style name="radionbutton"
parent="Base.Widget.AppCompat.CompoundButton.RadioButton">
<item name="android:button">#drawable/radiobutton_drawable</item>
<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
<item name="android:windowBackground">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:windowContentOverlay">#null</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowIsFloating">false</item>
<item name="android:backgroundDimEnabled">true</item>
</style>
Your radio button in XML should look like:
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
style="#style/radionbutton"
android:checked="false"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
Now all you need to do is make a radiobutton_drawable.xml in your drawable folder. Here is what you need to put in it:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/radio_unchecked" android:state_checked="false" android:state_focused="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/radio_unchecked" android:state_checked="false" android:state_focused="false"/>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/radio_checked" android:state_checked="true" android:state_focused="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/radio_checked" android:state_checked="true" android:state_focused="false"/>
</selector>
Your radio_unchecked.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="oval">
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#color/colorAccent"/>
<size android:width="30dp" android:height="30dp"/>
</shape>
Your radio_checked.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
<shape android:shape="oval">
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#color/colorAccent"/>
<size android:width="30dp" android:height="30dp"/>
</shape>
</item>
<item android:top="5dp" android:bottom="5dp" android:left="5dp" android:right="5dp">
<shape android:shape="oval">
<solid android:width="1dp" android:color="#color/colorAccent"/>
<size android:width="10dp" android:height="10dp"/>
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
Just replace #color/colorAccent with the color of your choice.
Declare a custom style in your styles.xml file.
<style name="MyRadioButton" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/indigo</item>
<item name="colorControlActivated">#color/pink</item>
</style>
Apply this style to your RadioButton via the android:theme attribute.
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:checked="true"
android:text="Radio Button"
android:theme="#style/MyRadioButton"/>
But only if your activity extends AppCompatActivity.
For under API 21
Create a custom style RadioButton:
File style.xml
<style name="RadioButton" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="colorAccent">#color/green</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#color/mediumGray</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/red</item>
</style>
In the layout, use the theme:
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/RadioButton" />
For API 21 and higher
Just use buttonTint:
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:buttonTint="#color/green" />
You can change the color of radio button's unchecked and checked state by using style in XML.
<RadioButton
android:id="#+id/rb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/RadioButtonStyle" />
In style.xml
<style name="RadioButtonStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="colorAccent">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
You can set the desired colors in this style.
You have to use this code:
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatRadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Radiobutton1"
app:buttonTint="#color/black" />
Using app:buttonTint instead of android:buttonTint and also android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatRadioButton instead of Radiobutton!
Set the buttonTint property. For example, android:buttonTint="#99FF33".
I made it the short way like this (working on API pre 21 as well as post 21):
Your radio button in XML should look like this
<RadioButton android:id="#+id/radioid"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:button="#drawable/radiodraw" />
In file radiodraw.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_checked="false" >
<shape android:shape="oval" >
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#000"/>
<size android:width="30dp" android:height="30dp"/>
<solid android:color="#android:color/transparent"/>
</shape>
</item>
<item android:state_checked="true">
<layer-list>
<item>
<shape android:shape="oval">
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#000"/>
<size android:width="30dp" android:height="30dp"/>
<solid android:color="#android:color/transparent"/>
</shape>
</item>
<item android:top="5dp" android:bottom="5dp" android:left="5dp" android:right="5dp">
<shape android:shape="oval">
<solid android:width="1dp" android:color="#000"/>
<size android:width="10dp" android:height="10dp"/>
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
</item>
</selector>
You have to add color transparent for drawing the unchecked status; else it draws a solid black oval.
For those who want to change disable, checked and enabled states you can do the following steps:
<!-- Or androidX radio button or material design radio button -->
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatRadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:buttonTint="#color/black"
android:text="Radiobutton1"
app:buttonTint="#color/radio_button_color" />
Then in the color res folder, make a file named "radio_button_color.xml":
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:color="#color/yellow900" android:state_selected="true" />
<item android:color="#color/yellow800" android:state_checked="true" />
<item android:color="#color/gray800" android:state_enabled="false" />
<item android:color="#color/yellow800" android:state_enabled="true" />
</selector>
Sometimes you just need to override colorControlNormal like this:
<style name="RadioButtonStyle" parent="AppTheme">
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/pink</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#color/black</item>
</style>
And you will get a button like this:
colorControlNormal is used for the unchecked state and colorAccent for checked.
There is an XML attribute for it:
android:buttonTint="yourcolor"
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/radio"
android:buttonTint="#color/my_color"/>
All buttons will change color, the circle box and the central check.
Just use the android:buttonTint="#color/colorPrimary" attribute on the <RadioButton> tag.
RadioButton by default takes the colour of colorAccent in res/values/colors.xml file.
So go to that file and change the value of
<color name="colorAccent">#3F51B5</color>
to the colour you want.
You can do it this way in XML with the android:buttonTint attribute:
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/radio"
android:checked="false"
android:padding="5dp"
android:buttonTint="#color/radio_color"/>
You can do it this way in Java using android:buttonTint:
// RadioButton ColorStateList
ColorStateList colorStateList = new ColorStateList(
new int[][]{
new int[]{-android.R.attr.state_checked}, // Unchecked
new int[]{android.R.attr.state_checked} // Checked
},
new int[]{
DataUtils.getColorResource(mContext, R.color.colorBlack), // Unchecked
DataUtils.getColorResource(mContext, R.color.colorPrimary) // Checked
}
);
RadioButton radio = findViewById(R.id.radio);
radio.setButtonTintList(colorStateList);
The easiest way is to change colourAccent color in values->colours.xml
but be aware that it will also change other things like edit text cursor color etc..
< color name="colorAccent">#75aeff</color >
I had this problem. If your app has a black background and you have a lot of RadioButtons that are invisible due to the background, it is complicated to edit the android:buttonTint attribute of each one. The best solution is to change the parent theme in your styles.xml file
I changed
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
to
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
So the RadioButtons' circles became a lighter shade of gray and now they are visible even with a black background.
This is my style.xml file:
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
</style>
</resources>
To change the radio button color programmatically you can use following:
yourradio button name.buttonDrawable?.setColorFilter(Color.parseColor( color_value), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP)
If you have android:buttonTint it wont work and you have to change it to app:buttonTint.
I had to do this after uprading to androidx.
use app:buttonTint instead of android:buttonTint like this:
<com.google.android.material.radiobutton.MaterialRadioButton
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="English"
android:checked="true"
app:buttonTint="#FF0000"
android:textAppearance="#style/TextAppearance.Material3.TitleSmall"
android:layout_marginHorizontal="16dp"
android:layoutDirection="rtl"
/>
or
<RadioButton
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="English"
android:checked="true"
app:buttonTint="#FF0000"
android:textAppearance="#style/TextAppearance.Material3.TitleSmall"
android:layout_marginHorizontal="16dp"
android:layoutDirection="rtl"
/>
create a drawable file my_compound_button_color_selector.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#color/text_app_color"/>
<item android:state_checked="true" android:color="#color/text_app_color"/>
<item android:color="#color/gray"/> </selector>
add style in style.xml file
<style name="AppRadioAppStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.CompoundButton.RadioButton">
<item name="android:textColor">#drawable/my_compound_button_color_selector</item>
<item name="drawableTint">#drawable/my_compound_button_color_selector</item>
</style>
layout file
<RadioButton
android:id="#+id/radio1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:button="#null"
android:drawableBottom="?android:attr/listChoiceIndicatorSingle"
android:gravity="center_horizontal|bottom"
android:background="#drawable/app_border_0"
android:padding="#dimen/_15sdp"
android:text="#string/no"
android:fontFamily="#font/poppins_medium"
style="#style/AppRadioAppStyle"
android:layout_marginStart="#dimen/_10sdp"/>
should be add android:button="#null" in your radiobutton
For different colors according to checked and unchecked states please try this -
Create a color resource file #color/radio_button -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:color="#color/grey" android:state_enabled="false" />
<item android:color="#color/grey" android:state_checked="false" />
<item android:color="#color/green" android:state_enabled="true" />
<item android:color="#color/green" android:state_checked="true" />
</selector>
And then use it like this -
<androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatRadioButton
android:id="#+id/radio_button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:buttonTint="#color/radio_button" />
This kotlin Extension
fun RadioButton.setLangRadioColor(isCheck: Boolean) {
val color = if (isCheck) {
intArrayOf(
ContextCompat.getColor(rootView.context, R.color.light_red),
ContextCompat.getColor(rootView.context, R.color.light_red)
)
} else {
intArrayOf(
ContextCompat.getColor(rootView.context, R.color.sortRadioUnselectColor),
ContextCompat.getColor(rootView.context, R.color.sortRadioUnselectColor)
)
}
val colorStateList = ColorStateList(
arrayOf(
intArrayOf(-android.R.attr.state_enabled), // disabled
intArrayOf(android.R.attr.state_enabled) // enabled
),
color
)
this.buttonTintList = colorStateList
}
If you want to set different color for a clicked and unclicked radio button, just use:
android:buttonTint="#drawable/radiobutton" in the XML content of the radiobutton and your radiobutton.xml file will be:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#1E88E5"/>
<item android:state_checked="true" android:color="#00e676"/>
<item android:color="#ffffff"/>
</selector>
#jh314 is correct.
In file AndroidManifest.xml,
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/icon"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme"></application>
In file style.xml:
<!-- Application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorAccent">#color/red</item>
<!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
</style>
The item name must be colorAccent. It decides the application's widgets default color.
But if you want to change the color in code, maybe #aknay's answer is correct.
I am trying to customize my spinner with custom style.
Spinner
<Spinner
android:id="#+id/my_spinner"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/expense_amount"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="parent"
android:elevation="3dp"
/>
Here is my styles.xml file.
styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:spinnerStyle">#style/AppTheme.spinnerStyle</item>
<item name="android:spinnerDropDownItemStyle">#style/AppTheme.spinnerDropDownItemStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.spinnerStyle" parent="#android:style/Widget.Material.Light.Spinner">
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.spinnerDropDownItemStyle" parent="#android:style/Widget.Material.DropDownItem.Spinner">
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>
This gives me spinners that look like this:
I want to add a dropdown arrow.
When I change the spinner to code for dropdown arrow, all the textcolor and background color are lost.
Spinner code to show dropdown arrow
<Spinner
android:id="#+id/my_spinner"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/expense_amount"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="parent"
android:background="#android:drawable/btn_dropdown"
/>
How can I retain my theme along with the drop down arrow ??
P.S. I am not very good at capturing screenshots on linux machines.
It's normal behaviour of Android:
Spinner have it's own default background, when you use styles.xml to custom it, it follow and turn to blue. Then in the code you again set the android:background of your Spinner to #android:drawable/btn_dropdown, so it override your styles because properties in layout xml have higher priority than in styles.
You don't have background to show dropdown arrow, use this:
First solution:
<Spinner
android:id="#+id/spinner"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
android:spinnerMode="dropdown" />
and in your java file
spinner = (Spinner) view.findViewById(R.id.spinner);
ArrayAdapter adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.spinner_data, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
spinner.setAdapter(adapter);
Second solution
You will need a RelativeLayout wrap outside Spinner. Replace your <Spinner> with this:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/spinner_bg">
<Spinner
android:id="#+id/spinner"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
android:spinnerMode="dropdown" />
</RelativeLayout>
Then create a custom background and choose background color for your spinner:
spinner_bg.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:top="8dp" android:bottom="8dp">
<shape>
<solid android:color="#color/colorPrimary" />
<corners android:radius="2dp"/>
<stroke
android:width="1dp"
android:color="#color/colorPrimary" />
<padding
android:top="16dp"
android:bottom="16dp"
android:left="8dp"
android:right="16dp"/>
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
i have activities which i themed with my custom theme, but for spinner i choosed to style it with Appcompat v21 but i got this :
So how to change the Spinner arrow to be black or blue if is there a way ?
i found this as similar question but doesn't have any answer : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28561105/add-custom-spinner-arrow
here is my spinner :
<Spinner
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/spinner2"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
i used this to style the spinner:
<style name="MyTheme.SpinnerAppTheme" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Spinner">
</style>
this is how i use the adapter
ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
getBaseContext(), R.array.listMedRes, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
i just want to theme the spinner , thanks alot
Might be late but better late than never. To respond to your question: "Is there a way to use it only in spinner?". The answer is yes, refer to the code below.
Add this code to your theme or style file
<style name="customSpinnerTheme" parent="yourAppThemeThatUseAppCompat21">
<item name="colorControlNormal">#eaeaea</item>
<item name="colorControlActivated">#000000</item>
<item name="colorControlHighlight">#000000</item>
</style>
Then in your XML that use spinner you can add this line
android:theme="#style/customSpinnerTheme"
e.g.
<Spinner
android:theme="#style/customSpinnerTheme"
android:id="#+id/spinner"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
android:spinnerMode="dialog" />
Since you are using AppCompat-v21, you can take advantage of the new material design styles attributes:
colorPrimary: your app branding color for the app bar, applies to action bar
colorPrimaryDark: darker variant for the status bar and contextual app bars
colorAccent: lets you define bright complement to the primary branding color. By default, this is the color applied to framework controls (via colorControlActivated)
colorControlNormal: color applied to framework controls in their normal state
colorControlActivated: applied to framework controls in their activated
Here is an example for you
styles.xml
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- colorPrimary is used for the default action bar background -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<!-- colorPrimaryDark is used for the status bar -->
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/primary_dark</item>
<!-- colorAccent is used as the default value for colorControlActivated which is used to tint widgets -->
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/primary</item>
</style>
colors.xml
<resources>
<color name="primary">#ff0000ff</color>
<color name="primary_dark">#ff0000af</color>
<color name="accent">#870000ff</color>
<color name="white">#ffffffff</color>
</resources>
Here is how it looks
Hope this helps.
There is a way to change your arrow color... actually it's not color you can change this image with blue color image..
create a xml file myspinner_selector in your drawable folder
and paste
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item><layer-list>
<item><shape>
<gradient android:angle="90" android:endColor="#ffffff" android:startColor="#ffffff" android:type="linear" />
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#504a4b" />
<corners android:radius="5dp" />
<padding android:bottom="3dp" android:left="3dp" android:right="3dp" android:top="3dp" />
</shape></item>
<item ><bitmap android:gravity="bottom|right" android:src="#drawable/blue_arrow" /> // you can use any other image here, instead of default_holo_dark_am
</item>
</layer-list></item>
</selector>
blue_arrow is an image, and add this style in your style file
<style name="spinner_style" >
<item name="android:background">#drawable/myspinner_selector</item>
<item name="android:layout_marginLeft">5dp</item>
<item name="android:layout_marginRight">5dp</item>
<item name="android:layout_marginBottom">5dp</item>
<item name="android:paddingLeft">5dp</item>
<item name="android:paddingTop">5dp</item>
<item name="android:paddingBottom">5dp</item>
</style>
finally add this style in your spinner
<Spinner
android:id="#+id/spinner1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
style="#style/spinner_style"
/>
it look like this. you need to customize
look at below code.
create spinner_bg.xml under drawable folder
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item><layer-list>
<item><shape>
<gradient android:angle="270" android:centerColor="#d0d0d0" android:endColor="#c5c6c6" android:startColor="#dbdadb" android:type="linear" />
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#7a7a7a" />
<corners android:radius="1dp" />
<padding android:left="3dp" android:right="3dp" />
</shape></item>
<item><bitmap android:gravity="center|right" android:src="#drawable/dropdown_icon_black" />
</item>
</layer-list></item>
</selector>
write down below code in styles.xml
<style name="spinner_style">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/spinner_bg</item>
</style>
Apply style to spinner
<Spinner
android:id="#+id/spinner"
style="#style/spinner_style"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:focusable="true"
android:overlapAnchor="false"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:spinnerMode="dropdown"
android:textColor="#android:color/white" />
use this image for spinner drawable
you could tint it with the attribute tint color.
<Spinner android:id="#+id/spinner"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:backgroundTint="#color/white"
/>
I tied to follow the example in
https://github.com/ChristopheVersieux/HoloEverywhere
to create Seekbar that is shown in below picture. However, it was too advanced compared to my beginner level,
I would appreciate if somebody could show me how to do this, I need the relevant code only?
i got it, i was missing the android:thumb below:
<SeekBar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/seekBar1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/topBar"
android:layout_marginTop="26dip"
android:paddingLeft="10dip"
android:paddingRight="10dip"
android:paddingTop="10dip"
android:max="10000"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
android:progressDrawable="#drawable/scrubber_progress_horizontal_holo_light"
android:thumb="#drawable/scrubber_control_selector_holo" >
</SeekBar>
in drwable:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/scrubber_control_disabled_holo" android:state_enabled="false"/>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/scrubber_control_pressed_holo" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/scrubber_control_focused_holo" android:state_selected="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/scrubber_control_normal_holo"/>
</selector>
and:
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#android:id/background"
android:drawable="#drawable/scrubber_track_holo_light"/>
<item android:id="#android:id/secondaryProgress">
<scale
android:drawable="#drawable/scrubber_secondary_holo"
android:scaleWidth="100%" />
</item>
<item android:id="#android:id/progress">
<scale
android:drawable="#drawable/scrubber_primary_holo"
android:scaleWidth="100%" />
</item>
</layer-list>
of course you need also the image from there.
In order to use the theme you must have a "themes.xml" file in your res/values folder with the following code (assuming the library is imported...):
<style name="YourTheme" parent="Theme.HoloEverywhereLight">
<!-- You can customize the theme here! -->
</style>
And in your application's AndroidManifest file, apply the theme:
<application
android:icon="#drawable/app_launch_icon"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/YourTheme" >
And then finally in your activity's main.xml layout, add the seekbar somewhere, as follows:
<SeekBar
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:progress="75" />