I\'d like to use the Holo.Light
theme on devices that support it, and fall back to the regular Light
theme on other devices.
At the moment,
You have to create a custom theme and save it in some directories to finally set this theme as the default one for the app
First, in values add a themes.xml like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="MyAppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light.NoTitleBar">
<!-- Any customizations for your app running on pre-3.0 devices here -->
</style>
</resources>
Then, create a directory with the name "values-v11" (Android 3.0+ ) in the res directory and put a themes.xml like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="MyAppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<!-- Any customizations for your app running on 3.0+ devices here -->
</style>
</resources>
Finally, create a directory with the name "values-v14" (Android 4.0+) in the res directory and create a themes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="MyAppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault.Light.NoActionBar">
<!-- Any customizations for your app running on 4.0+ devices here -->
</style>
</resources>
With the DeviceDefault your app allways look perfect in any device of any company (HTC Samsung ... ) that add created custom themes for Android 4
EDIT: Samsung's interface (TouchWiz) dont respect this feature and the apps will be very ugly on Samsung's devices. Its better put Holo theme :(
Finally in your manifest.xml
<application
...
android:theme="@style/MyAppTheme">
You can also simply set the background to be white, and then go through and make all your other widgets black, like this:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
**android:background="#ffffff"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tvText"
android:text="@string/text"
**android:textColor="#000000"
android:textSize="12dp" />