Styling Custom Views

Question

I have a few custom views in my Android project and I\'ve added the relevant details to the attrs.xml file. And now I can implement my objects through XML. This works fine.

Answer 1

For clarification, the item's name attribute should be the same as what is in the attrs.xml's declare-styleable name attribute + ":" + the attribute name.

For example:

attrs.xml:

style.xml:

You can then apply this style to all activities by using a theme in your manifest.xml file. Anywhere that a custom view exists that wants to use the "actionBarTextColor" attribute, you can then use the Java code:

TypedArray typedArray = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrSet, R.styleable.com_chuck_norris);
COLOR_ACTION_BAR_TEXT = typedArray.getColor(R.styleable.com_chuck_norris_actionBarTextColor, 0xff0000ff);
typedArray.recycle();

I'm not sure why you cannot just define your schema in your style.xml file as was asked above, but it seems to be a limitation of style.xml.