*> If you want your style to be used as theme ,you have to put your style > in theme.xml not style.xml.This you can find developer's guide also.*
This is not correct... According to the developer's guide ( http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html), the name of the file is arbitrary: *"To create a set of styles, save an XML file in the res/values/ directory of your project. The name of the XML file is arbitrary, but it must use the .xml extension and be saved in the res/values/ folder." * It also further states the following about the different between styles and themes: *"A theme is a style applied to an entire Activity<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html>or application, rather than an individual View <http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html> (as in the example above). When a style is applied as a theme, every View in the Activity or application will apply each style property that it supports. For example, you can apply the same CodeFont style as a theme for an Activity and then all text inside that Activity will have green monospace font." * The fact that there are styles.xml and themes.xml files merely seems to be a convention and Android does not distinguish by the filename. The difference between a style and a theme is where it is applied (activity level or view level). Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:04 AM, gyanu maharjan <[email protected]>wrote: > If you want your style to be used as theme ,you have to put your style > in theme.xml not style.xml.This you can find developer's guide also. > > On Oct 17, 6:30 pm, Amit <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a PreferenceActivity which displays items in a list view. I > > applied theme as Theme.Dialog in AndroidManifest.xml and it looks like > > a dialog with black color background. To change the background I did > > the following changes: > > > > style.xml > > > > <style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:Theme.Dialog"> > > <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/bg_color</item> > > <item name="android:colorBackground">@color/bg_color</item> > > </style> > > > > color.xml > > > > <color name="bg_color">@android:color/white</color> > > > > AndroidManifest.xml > > > > <activity android:name=".PrefActivity" > > android:theme="@style/CustomTheme" > > android:excludeFromRecents="true" > > </activity> > > > > Now, neither I see the screen as dialog(appears as full screen) nor > > the color as white. Please help me if I am missing something here. Or > > do we have a better alternative to change the color for the above > > mentioned scenario. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
