I spent a while having trouble with themes set in onCreate being
apparently ignored.

In the end, I moved all our theme setting to the manifest, and had no
more trouble.

Richard


On May 2, 2:34 am, havexz <bali.param...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am setting the theme in onCreate() method........of every activity.
> Any screen which has views like text view, radio etc is not working
> fine in Light Theme. The background is black in light theme. One more
> question how to programmatically  change the application theme so that
> i dont have to change it for every activity?
>
> On Apr 28, 10:29 pm, Jeff Sharkey <jshar...@android.com> wrote:
>
> > Hmm wait, that wouldn't explain the background colors.  Are you
> > setting the theme from the android:theme attribute in your manifest,
> > or in onCreate() somewhere?
>
> > j
>
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Jeff Sharkey <jshar...@android.com> wrote:
> > > That's because you're probably looking to use textColorPrimaryInverse.  ;)
>
> > > j
>
> > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:18 PM,havexz<bali.param...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >> Thats right what I am trying to say is that when I apply white theme
> > >> then the text views become black. I mean the text become black but the
> > >> background also remains black. But this wont happen with the list
> > >> view. So do i have to explicitly set the color of the background for
> > >> the them. Currently I am not setting any background. Here is what I am
> > >> doing : this is the xml for Activity
>
> > >> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/
> > >> android"
> > >>        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
> > >> android:layout_width="fill_parent"
> > >>        android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@+id/view_xyz">
>
> > >>        <ScrollView android:id="@+id/ScrollView01"
> > >>                android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
> > >> android:layout_weight="1"
> > >>                android:layout_width="fill_parent">
>
> > >>                <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout01"
> > >>                        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
> > >> android:layout_height="wrap_content">
> > >>                        <TextView android:layout_height="wrap_content"
> > >>                                android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
> > >> android:text="@string/title"
> > >>                                
> > >> android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal" android:id="@
> > >> +id/title_text"
> > >>                                android:textSize="10pt" 
> > >> android:textColor="?android:attr/
> > >> textColorPrimary"></TextView>
> > >>                        <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
> > >>                                android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
> > >> android:id="@+id/xyz_text"
> > >>                                android:layout_below="@+id/title_text" 
> > >> android:text="@string/
> > >> xyz_text_string"
> > >>                                android:textSize="6pt"></TextView>
> > >>                </RelativeLayout>
> > >>        </ScrollView>
> > >> </LinearLayout>
>
> > >> Please help. Same code works fine on 1.1 but not on 1.5
>
> > >> On Apr 28, 8:00 pm, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote:
> > >>> TextView and ScrollView do not have a background.
>
> > >>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:55 PM,havexz<bali.param...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >>> > When apply the white theme, the text views and scrollviews display
> > >>> > black background....and its very hard to read the text. The same app
> > >>> > works fine on the 1.1 SDK. I am running the application on the Dev
> > >>> > Phone (but emulator also have same symptoms)
>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Romain Guy
> > >>> Android framework engineer
> > >>> romain...@android.com
>
> > >>> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time
> > >>> to provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on
> > >>> public forums, where I and others can see and answer them
>
> > > --
> > > Jeff Sharkey
> > > jshar...@google.com
>
> > --
> > Jeff Sharkey
> > jshar...@google.com
>
>
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