That doesn't solve the problem, which is that you are trying to create a
mix of resources from two .apks and you can't currently do that.
I would assume these other apps are just directly loading the bitmaps from
the other .apk where they need them.
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Mor G. <gaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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