Understanding Android Themes
summary
Argues that Android themes are poorly documented and gives concrete fixes: uses Android Studio, edits styles.xml and AndroidManifest, builds example layouts and buttons, shows style inheritance both via a parent tag and dot-naming, and demonstrates the single-style limit with the textAppearance exception. Shows attribute lookup like ?attr/colorPrimary, using Android:buttonStyle and actionBarSize, explains precedence (theme < style < layout < code), offers a values-v21 trick for Material on old devices, and warns where this approach breaks.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:19Why Talk about Themes?
- 5:44Styles also...
- 7:18Example
- 8:56styles.xml
- 9:44Another way of doing style inheritance
- 10:57Overriding attributes
- 14:37Limitation of styles
- 14:50Wait! You can!
- 16:52Colors.xml
- 21:48Customize themes
- 22:30Using styles with themes
- 23:13Accessing theme from styles and layout
- 24:27AppCompat and themes
- 25:53Lots of themes..
- 27:32Material.Light
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