Hi Dianne, thanks for the info.
I've seen methods like Resources.Theme.applyStyle which capable of
overriding existing attributes with a supplied style resource-id, which
would have been useful if I could tell it from what resource to get the
resource-id from.
Isn't there a similar method that I can use to only override certain
attributes in my existing applied theme?
If not, could you maybe suggest a different way to approach this problem?
There are lots of themed apps on Android, so I'm sure there's a way to do
this.
Thanks again,
Mor.
On Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:51:30 AM UTC+3, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
>
> You can't really do this by simply pointing to a theme. The resources
> object is used across the view hierarchy to load resources; to set the
> theme from another apk you will need to have the resources coming from
> there, but then you won't be able to access any of your own resources that
> you need (like strings etc).
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Mor G.
>
>> Hi Richard, thanks for the reply.
>>
>> I have an app with light and dark themes defined in themes.xml.
>> I have a setting to allow the user the select light/dark theme in the app.
>> This works great.
>>
>> Now the themes are pretty heavy in graphics, since they define not only
>> styling but different drawables as well, so I want to offer more themes
>> like blue, green, red, etc. as external apks in Google play, like I've seen
>> many other apps have done, so a user could install a "MyApp blue theme"
>> apk, and then he'll be able to choose this theme from the main app settings.
>>
>> I've tried using: Resources res = pm.getResourcesForApplication(appInfo);
>> Which gets the resources object of the external apk, but I can't seem to
>> get and apply the theme from it using activity.setTheme(externalTheme).
>>
>> I've tried using: Context themedContext =
>> activity.getApplicationContext().createPackageContext("com.myapp.blue",
>> Context.CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY);
>> Which gets a themed context, but again, couldn't set this theme to my
>> running activity.
>>
>> I've read a lot about this, but couldn't find any complete solution.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mor.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:17:40 AM UTC+3, RichardC wrote:
>>>
>>> If it's your own application then read about library projects.
>>> Otherwise unless the app you are reading resources from is available
>>> under a suitable open source licence then in my opinion what you are trying
>>> to do could be infringing copyright.
>>> If the app is open source then just download it and use the resources.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:51:58 PM UTC+1, Terry wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm able to use getResourcesForApplication and getIdentifier to get the
>>>> individual resources from another application. However, when I try to call
>>>> setTheme using a remote theme.xml from another app, the references inside
>>>> theme.xml point to the app that I'm running, not pointing to the remote
>>>> application where the theme.xml is. As a result, I get a
>>>> ResourceNotFoundException inside theme.xml where I try to use the styles I
>>>> defined from the remote app. In other words, I can apply theme.xml but not
>>>> reference to the styles inside it.
>>>>
>>>> Moderator, please don't block this post. I googled for days and have
>>>> not found a resolution to it.
>>>>
>>> --
>>
>
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