Hey Pat. Thanks for your chipping in.
No, I could also hardcode the colors and that is what it seems I will have to do. In my particular case it won't make much difference at the moment. For now I just need two values and they correspond to the light and dark. But for the future my needs will grow and it is also not so much fun to maintain a shadow theme administration on the side. I would have preferred to be a model citizen on the Android platform and use the themes. Hardcoding might be the quickest solution, but would fail if I want to use platform properties that are overwritten by vendor themes. To give you an example. On a stock Android device you'll see an orange background behind a selected list item, on an HTC sense device it would be green instead. Also as themes look so central to me, I was kind of hoping that I just missed the relevant documentation and that somebody else would point me to RTFM ;-) Cheers Mariano On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:38 AM, patbenatar <[email protected]> wrote: Do you need to be doing this programatically? You could always take a screenshot of your phone [either using DDMS on a non-rooted device or the PicMe app on a rooted device] and then grab the colors using Photoshop or any image editing software. Another option, again not programmatic, would be to download the Android source [or you can browse it online in the Git repo] and find the declarations for those colors. -Nick On Apr 26, 3:23 am, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use colors from a Theme to apply it to HTML my app is rendering. I > am wondering if I can do that? > > I am looking to use colors like they are specified in themes.xml: > > <item > name="colorForeground">@android:color/bright_foreground_dark</item> > .. > <item name="colorBackground">@android:color/background_dark</item> > .. > <item > name="textColorPrimary">@android:color/primary_text_dark</item> > .. > > So it looks to me those are declared in the same way. > > When trying to access those values this way: > > TypedValue tv = new TypedValue(); > getTheme().resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.colorBackground, tv, > true); > > System.out.println("tv.string=" + tv.string); > System.out.println("tv.coerced=" + tv.coerceToString()); > > int colorResourceId = getResources().getColor(tv.resourceId); > System.out.println("colorResourceId=" + colorResourceId); > > tv = new TypedValue(); > getTheme().resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.textColorPrimary, tv, > true); > > System.out.println("tv.string=" + tv.string); > System.out.println("tv.coerced=" + tv.coerceToString()); > > colorResourceId = getResources().getColor(tv.resourceId); > System.out.println("colorResourceId=" + colorResourceId); > > I get this as a result: > > I/System.out( 1578): tv.string=null > I/System.out( 1578): tv.coerced=#ffffffff > I/System.out( 1578): colorResourceId=-1 > > I/System.out( 1578): tv.string=res/color/primary_text_light.xml > I/System.out( 1578): tv.coerced=res/color/primary_text_light.xml > I/System.out( 1578): colorResourceId=-16777216 > > The results are different. The first one actually gives me the color > "#fffffff" which would work for me, the second one only gives me an xml. > > Do I need to jump through a few more hoops here to resolve the actual color? > Does my original intention work at all? Maybe it won't work, because colors > could be arbitrary drawables? > > I didn't find any relevant documentation, but if you know any, just point me > there please. > > Btw. I also tried obtainStyledAttributes(), but this had basically the same > issues. > > Cheers, > Mariano > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group athttp:// 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]<android-developers%[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
