I am currently creating an application for a client. I love the Holo light with dark action bar theme/style but that means that I would have to use API 14 and above. If I set the min API level to 14 then only about 50% of android users will be able to get the application, so I need to have min API level set to 9 (Gingerbread).
Finally the question: is there any way of using the theme/style on gingerbread or even put a Holo light with dark action bar style in Values?
You can use Action Bar Sherlock library it has Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar (among other things). With it you can almost completely emulate API 14 UI on earlier devices.
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am building a app using material deaign but when I set api to >20 my status bar goes all white and non of the icons is seen. my question now is if I set my target sdk value to 20 will devices running lollipop be able to download my app from the playstore ?
i'm confused about deploying my android apps, theming isue.
How can i display on diferent devices a progress bar(for example) with his native theme? So if its android 4.0 display it with themes for 4.0 and if its android 2.2 display it with themes for 2.2...beause if i develop for android 2.2, i get his theme on other devices versions.
i get this always
I want this for other versions.
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If the device has version 2.2 i want that progress bar as a 2.2 progress bar android version. But if it's a 4.0 version i want a 4.0 progress bar style verion. Is that possible?
The effect below is one of features of theme Holo, which is introduced into android since 4.0. So there is possibility you can get such layout effect by introducing style file into lower version of system. See set-holo-theme-in-older-android-versions
I'm using android:Theme.Holo in my activity and I'm wondering if there's any way this can be not recommended. I mean if it's possible that Holo theme is not present in the device (obviously in >=Honeycomb).
In case it's not present, I guess the app would just crash, wouldn't it?
Holo theme is mandatory on all Android 4.0 devices that are running Android Market.
Yes Android 4.0 showcases the Holo theme family, further refined since its debut in Android 3.0. Indeed, Google continues its approach to unify the user experience on various Android devices by imposing native Holo theme (and its variations: Holo Holo Light and Light DarkActionBar) to access the Marketplace. So to ask your question all devices that run Android 4.0 uses the Holo theme.
As the other answers say, Holo is mandatory in 4.0, but if you want to support Holo on pre-4.0 phones then check out HoloEverywhere, https://github.com/ChristopheVersieux/HoloEverywhere.
We are building an app that is (still) targeted at API Level 8, but we make use of the compatibility package. Because of the specs we cannot target level 14. On a new device (HTC One X) the menu button of the ActionBar is visible below the app. Is there a way to disable or hide that button?
try reading about the ActionBarSherlock, it's a compatibility library for implementing action bar in lower SDK version.
You can try ActionBarCompat. It's pure Android :-)