[android-developers] What colour to use for custom contentView in notification for 2.2 and 2.3
So I've got a custom view being used as a RemoteViews in a notification. Looking in the 2.2. resource, I can see \layout\status_bar_latest_event_content.xml where it explicitly sets the colour of the title and text to ff00. Which works nicely under 2.2 stock. The text is black. But under 2.3, the notification bar is darker and black text is not visible. Looking in the same file under 2.3 I find it is now using a style android:textAppearance=@style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.EventContent.Title. This is using ?textColorPrimaryInverse which is white but the same value under 2.2 is also white. The TextAppearance.StatusBar style hierarchy doesn't exist for 2.2 or below. So should I check for the sdk version and if running 2.3+ then get the value of the style attribute and manually override the color for the custom view..? Seems a bit of a faff to have to do that? And how do I compile it to refer to that new attribute when I'm targetting 2.2? Any way to get it to work purely in xml with no additional java faff..? But I'm also wondering about all that theming going on for custom roms - how do they handle this..? For a 2.2. phone, the text colour of black is hardcoded into that layout. So does that mean that no theme for a 2.2. device can change the colour of the notification bar background to black otherwise all the notifications will be unreadable? Am I missing something here? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] What colour to use for custom contentView in notification for 2.2 and 2.3
H, You can try putting a 2.3 specific layout into res/layout-v9. You'd then be able to use the new style, provided you build with 2.3, and still remain compatible with earlier versions. -- Kostya 26.01.2011 15:42, H пишет: So I've got a custom view being used as a RemoteViews in a notification. Looking in the 2.2. resource, I can see \layout\status_bar_latest_event_content.xml where it explicitly sets the colour of the title and text to ff00. Which works nicely under 2.2 stock. The text is black. But under 2.3, the notification bar is darker and black text is not visible. Looking in the same file under 2.3 I find it is now using a style android:textAppearance=@style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.EventContent.Title. This is using ?textColorPrimaryInverse which is white but the same value under 2.2 is also white. The TextAppearance.StatusBar style hierarchy doesn't exist for 2.2 or below. So should I check for the sdk version and if running 2.3+ then get the value of the style attribute and manually override the color for the custom view..? Seems a bit of a faff to have to do that? And how do I compile it to refer to that new attribute when I'm targetting 2.2? Any way to get it to work purely in xml with no additional java faff..? But I'm also wondering about all that theming going on for custom roms - how do they handle this..? For a 2.2. phone, the text colour of black is hardcoded into that layout. So does that mean that no theme for a 2.2. device can change the colour of the notification bar background to black otherwise all the notifications will be unreadable? Am I missing something here? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] What colour to use for custom contentView in notification for 2.2 and 2.3
Hi Kostya, cunning idea! I've not made the leap to building against 2.3 yet as I like to see all the source code - plus there isn't a working 2.3 emulator with lvl support yet. Maybe this is the final reason...? But surely there must be a better way to not have to resort to layouts for specific releases..? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] What colour to use for custom contentView in notification for 2.2 and 2.3
Every time the SDK gets a new feature, using it requires building with the new version. I don't see anything wrong with that (think alternate drawables in 1.6, install to sd in 2.2). As for the alternate layout - 2.3 seems to have received some minor but probably important UI tweaks: in addition to the issue at hand, status bar icons for notifications have a new look, different from 2.2 and below. http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_status_bar.html I would look at it this way: it's the price you pay for making your application look its best on all platform versions. Takes some work, but then what doesn't? YMMV -- Kostya 26.01.2011 15:59, H пишет: Hi Kostya, cunning idea! I've not made the leap to building against 2.3 yet as I like to see all the source code - plus there isn't a working 2.3 emulator with lvl support yet. Maybe this is the final reason...? But surely there must be a better way to not have to resort to layouts for specific releases..? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] What colour to use for custom contentView in notification for 2.2 and 2.3
Yeah, you're right of course.. :-) I've already made a note a few days ago to download the gingerbread source after you posted how on your blog - I guess now's the time to jump in! Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] What colour to use for custom contentView in notification for 2.2 and 2.3
H, More on sources in Eclipse - I just set it up so that the debugger finds a different version of Android sources from the one used for building. In my case, I am building with 2.2, debugging on 2.1update1. This is something I've been wanting to solve for some time, the email exchange we had today prompted me to dive into it, so thank you. Will make a blog post about this (probably tomorrow), as this seems like a useful thing. -- Kostya 26.01.2011 16:26, H пишет: Yeah, you're right of course.. :-) I've already made a note a few days ago to download the gingerbread source after you posted how on your blog - I guess now's the time to jump in! Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] What colour to use for custom contentView in notification for 2.2 and 2.3
Yeah, that would be good. My concern with building against 2.3 was that if I debug'd, I would need to use a 2.3 emulator. And with the broken lvl in it, I would have to hack my app heavily and then couldn't rely on the testing anyway. So the ability to build against 2.3 but debug against 2.2 or 2.1 would fill that gap nicely. Good work! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] What colour to use for custom contentView in notification for 2.2 and 2.3
You should design your notification icons to work well against any background. When we changed the status bar background to black, we were planning on implementing compatibility for old apps that assumed the old background, like we usually do. However we realized that since there have already been devices shipping with a black background from various vendors, it wouldn't really help -- developers already unfortunately were in the boat where they had to deal with making their icons work on both light and dark backgrounds. So just design your icons to work on both. The simplest way would be to do something like put a black background behind them, perhaps a rounded rectangle. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:17 AM, H m...@howardb.com wrote: Yeah, that would be good. My concern with building against 2.3 was that if I debug'd, I would need to use a 2.3 emulator. And with the broken lvl in it, I would have to hack my app heavily and then couldn't rely on the testing anyway. So the ability to build against 2.3 but debug against 2.2 or 2.1 would fill that gap nicely. Good work! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] What colour to use for custom contentView in notification for 2.2 and 2.3
Thanks Dianne. I wasn't too worried about the icon as I can deal with that - it was the colour of the text to display by the side of it in the contentView. But you mentioned the same thing that I was realising: custom Themes must have broken this a long time ago anyway so there are probably many apps out there on gingerbread with black text on a black background in a custom notification anyway. I've coded the solution Kostya suggested above and tested it in the gb emulator and it works a treat! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
