I have a column of Checkboxes and associated EditTexts and I want one pair of these to have a distinct appearance because it has a distinct significance.
Short of writing custom controls, or using custom drawables, does Android have any way to style or alter the appearance of basic controls like buttons, checkboxes, etc, in the XML where the control is declared? Or is there just one native style or appearance for all Android Checkboxes, Buttons, EditTexts, etc?
Thanks in advance.
You can almost custom everything related to style:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html
In fact, an Android Button is just a TextView with different style. In source code, the Button is just an extend to TextView with no overriding.
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I need to Android edittex select the style, modify as similar to the iPhone style, what need to be doneenter image description here
I highly discourage you from copying the iPhone style, However, if you have not got any alternatives then look into creating a custom edittext specifically looking at the setSelection method.
I am creating the app which consists of Dial pad.
I want to use two strings in a single button.One is having one set of style and another one having another set of style in style.xml.
Is there any way to do this in XML.
I want the text in the button to be as follows
android:text= #style 2 #style abc
There are some complex ways to do this involving Spannables, but depending on what you want to do, you may be able to get away with Html.fromHtml() and am html-formatted string resource.
I need to create a custom button control that will inherit from the same Android style as all other buttons in my application. However, I want to be able to add several lines of text where some characters of the text will be in different colors. Is there anyway to achieve this, I can't seem to see a way?
Currently I have created a view that looks like a button by drawing the background, this is ok but I want the background etc to change with the application style.
You should make your button descend from the generic theme for Widget.Button. This way you can ensure that all the default settings will come through for you.
Is it possible to do something like the following?
<LinearLayout android:id="#android:id/empty"
android:background="?android:style/Widget.ListView.overScrollFooter"
>
Left out all the unimportant layout stuff. I'm wondering if it's possible to reference one of the individual attributes of defined in a style?
Edit for more info: The default styles and attributes for many widgets are defined by Android, and customized further by phone manufacturers. That's how they can customize how a basic android widget looks. In my example, the footer of a listView will look different on a Samsung phone than on a HTC phone or on a default Google phone.
I would like to grab the attribute defined in the listview style (specifically the overscrollfooter drawable attribute), and use it as a background for one of my views. Technically speaking, I have a programmatic solution for this, but it's clunky, and requires that I repeat that code every time I use this view (which is in a lot of places).
No, I think a style is an all or none kinda of deal. I would place the footer in it's own style and import it into your primary style. That frees it up to be used (alone) in yout LinearLayout.
I want to change the style of a button in an android app. here is a picture that has both kinds of buttons, the one that I have now, and the one that I want to switch to:
the kinds of buttons that I am using now, look like any of the letters on that keyboard. the ones that I want to use like like the arrows. I would I go about changing this. I prefer to do it in xml but I can do it in java if that is the only way. Thanks
change the background of the Button to a png image with arrows!
in XML use android:background="#drawable/yourimage"
To get more sophisticated control check here,
Standard Android Button with a different color