I'm attempting to style the ActionBar, following this blog post:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/04/customizing-action-bar.html
With this source code:
svn checkout http://styled-action-bar.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ styled-action-bar-read-only
However, I'm getting issues in /res/values/styles.xml.
This:
<!-- style for the tabs -->
<style name="MyActionBarTabStyle" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBarView_TabView">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/actionbar_tab_bg</item>
<item name="android:paddingLeft">32dp</item>
<item name="android:paddingRight">32dp</item>
</style>
Is erroring with:
Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBarView_TabView'.
However, using the following answer, and digging through the source for Android, I can see that the theme does indeed exist:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/7149389/420001
The only thing that I changed in the project was moving it from android-11 to android-14, and then running an "Android" > "Fix Project Properties" in Eclipse. I do note that the repo linked to in that answer, that lists the style, is on branch master, so I can't see why the theme would be unfound.
Just for tests, I put that chunk of code in my working android-14 targeting app, minus the background drawable, and it throws the same error.
According to the links in https://stackoverflow.com/a/7837756/1003511 there is a Widget_Holo_Light_ActionBar_TabView but not a Widget_Holo_Light_ActionBarView_TabView. It's possible the resource has been renamed since that tutorial was written. It says the version without the extra "view" has been included since API level 13 - if the tutorial was originally written on 11 it's possible it was renamed in 13, and since you are running 14 you can only see the renamed version. I'd try removing the extraneous "view" and see if the code runs.
You may be missing an '#' character when specifying that you want to look in the android styles:
You can also double check to see if the parent style is listed in the API documentation here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html
It looks like you may have the name slightly wrong.
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In my current project, when I select the Design tab in Android Studio 2.2.2 for a particular layout I get an error that says
Missing styles. Is the correct theme chosen for this layout?
and it goes on to say
Failed to find style 'textEditSuggestionItemLayout' in current theme
(42 similar errors not shown)
But, the actual layout renders OK in the Designer and at runtime.
There are lots of other S.O. posts on this, such as here and here and most of the answers seem to involve clearing the caches and restarting Android Studio, or selecting a different theme from the dropdown. I I have tried the first one but it didn't help. I haven't tried the second one yet because I don't really understand what a theme is.
Questions:
The error implies that there's an error in the theme itself. What
is that? Is the theme file part of my project, i.e., is it one
that I should be creating, editing, and that gets built and shipped
as part of my APK or is it only used in the developer IDE?
If I select a different theme from the dropdown how do I know what the
"correct" one is?
Since my project builds and runs OK as is, can I just ignore these
errors? In other words are these errors in my code or just a
problem with the development environment?
Edit: Some additional information after responding to comments, below:
The only place the string 'theme' is used in my manifest is
android:theme="#style/Theme.FullScreen"
... and FullScreen is the theme specified in the dropdown.
I did a search in my project for the string "textEditSuggestionItemLayout" and Android Studio found no occurrences of it.
If you've recently updated AS or any of its components, then try to 'Invalidate caches & restart'.
Else, try choosing AppTheme from the Design tab or change it to AppTheme from the default one. Choose the one that conforms to your parent app theme in your styles.xml.
The cause of the error could be anything from malfunctioning IDE to selecting a theme not mentioned in your styles.xml (most likely).
You could do a project-wide search for textEditSuggestionItemlayout, or the other styles that it claims to miss.
These are either in your own res/values/styles.xml and/or res/values/themes.xml files, or they are provided within the SDK, which is why you see some suggestions to uncheck 'Automatically Pick Best' and pick a version you have installed. In some cases, the latest API version's rendering tools don't work.
As an example, if you have your style set at Theme.Holo, but you are using the AppCompatActivity, you'll get a rendering error that you must use a Theme.AppCompat (or descendant). These themes are changeable from the dropdown of the design editor.
You can see what themes/styles are applied to your Activities within the AndroidManifest.xml.
res/values/styles.xml
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/PrimaryColor</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/PrimaryDarkColor</item>
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
</style>
AndroidManifest.xml
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme">
Note: android:theme= and #style/
If you are still missing themes, then you may be missing some dependency, such as
compile 'com.android.support:design:<your_version_here>'
If your code runs fine, then sure, ignore it, but I think getting the layout designer working again shouldn't be ignored.
I'm new to android programming (developing on Android Studio 0.8.11) and I'm having issues applying a custom theme to an ActionBar.
My goal is to create a complete custom actionBar with different colours and resources. My min SDK is 16.
Here is the example theme definition in the /res/values/styles.xml:
<style name="Theme.MyStyle" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar" >
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#00FF00</item>
</style>
I'm trying to applying this to all the app with the following line in the manifest xml:
<application> [...] android:theme="#android:style/Theme.MyStyle">
</application>
However when I try to lookout for "Theme.MyStyle" the auto-completion seems not to find it. In fact that part is reded out and the compiler says "No resource found that matches the given name '#android:style/Theme.MyStyle'" .
I'm just trying to figure out how to correct applying a theme, all the guides found even on android developer makes the theming easy but I can't find what's wrong!
Any tips? Thank you very much!
#android:style is for predefined android styles
Change this
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.MyStyle"
into
android:theme="#style/Theme.MyStyle"
I've been trying to follow this answer for adding an animation to a dialog box. However I'm getting an error on the first style addition.
I've added the following to res/values/styles.xml (not completely sure if this is correct)
<style name="DialogAnimation">
<item name="android:windowEnterAnimation">#anim/slide_down_dialog.xml</item>
<item name="android:windowExitAnimation">#anim/slide_out_up</item>
</style>
The first item, android:windowEnterAnimation, does not seem to exist when I tab complete android:. This also applies to android:windowExitAnimation. The error I receive in the XML file is:
error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'android:windowEnterAnimation' with value '#anim/slide_down_dialog.xml').
All the questions I've found regarding animation like this uses windowEnter/ExitAnimation. I looked at the android docs and it supposedly has this attribute, but I cannot for the life of me get it to appear.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice. If this is a duplicate please point me in the right direction, I couldn't find any related questions.
you sholud put # letter before android and remove the .xml like:
<item name="#android:windowEnterAnimation">#anim/slide_down_dialog</item>
I think it is:
remove (.xml) to be like (#anim/slide_down_dialog)
I updated my project from Android 4.2 to Android 4.2.2 and I suddenly get this error in my styles.xml:
<style name="Theme.Styled" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
<!-- Requires level 11. Current: 7 --> <item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
</style>
How do I fix this? According to the ABS docs this is how it should be done. See: http://actionbarsherlock.com/theming.html
I tried restarting, but I ultimately needed to clean the project: Click "Project->Clean..."
The error came back every time I saved my styles.xml. For now, I am setting my minimum API level to 11 temporarily while editing that file to avoid the errors, and then resetting it back down and cleaning when I want to run it on my low-API-level emulator.
Edit: If you don't like leaving your min SDK version artificially high, it also works for me to change it to 14 (some other high number), save AndroidManifest.xml, change it right back, and save again.
I used the suggested quick fix of Eclipse (CTRL-1 on the underlined element) and just added the warning suppression tools:ignore="NewApi"
<item name="android:actionBarStyle" tools:ignore="NewApi">#style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
This way you don't have to ignore the whole Lint warning, which might be handy in other cases, and you can compile the project without having to readjust the target API every time you edit the file.
Update: As greg7gkb pointed out in the comments: Don't forget the namespace declaration (xmlns:tools="schemas.android.com/tools").
Ultimately, you really should add the attribute that is giving you the error in an API specific styles.xml file.
This SO answer describes this much better than I could: android:actionBarStyle requires API level 11
I think ALL the other answers are not fixes, but work-arounds (subverting the error, but ultimately not fixing it).
In Intellij IDEA (presumably also eclipse) you can suppress API warnings for the entire file by adding
<!--suppress AndroidLintNewApi -->
Before you declare the schema. So your xml file would then look something like this:
<!--suppress AndroidLintNewApi -->
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
< ... />
</resources>
I am getting following error on deploying one of the sample projects given by android: android api demos for api level 8 :
error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:style/Theme.Wallpaper'.
at values/styles.xml line 43
<style name="Theme.Wallpaper" parent="android:style/Theme.Wallpaper">
<item name="android:colorForeground">#fff</item>
</style>
I have been looking for solutions for over a month now. I have tried rebuilding project, dowloading entire source code again and rebuilding and cleaning.
Help
As Very Well Explain by raychenon.
<style name="Theme.Wallpaper" parent="android:style/Theme.Wallpaper" >
<item name="android:colorForeground">#fff</item>
</style>
What is happening is that some styles, like Theme.Wallpaper are not public. You should not extend from them anymore.
Some suggest to revert to platform_tools_r05 HERE
If you want to do the correct way read Xavier July 28 HERE
If you wish to reuse a style that is private, you should copy the
content of that style into your own instead of extending it.
ANSWER
Default theme for windows that want to have the user's selected
wallpaper appear behind them.
<style name="Theme.Wallpaper">
<item name="android:windowBackground">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:colorBackgroundCacheHint">#null</item>
<item name="android:windowShowWallpaper">true</item>
</style>
Looks like you want to use the above code from the Android source and create your own theme based it.
Hope it Will Helps you.
You can refer to this question posted here and read Xavier's comments on the Google blog..
style reference after SDK and ADT plugin update in mid 2011
Hope it helps..Keep me posted
When you import the Android Samples via "Android projects from existing code", I noticed that the libraries and API number are Android 1.5 and API level 3.
This API Level doesn't support android:style/Theme.Wallpaper.
I fixed it by adjusting the Project Build Target to Android 2.2 (API Level 8) in the Project Properties Menu.