Best practices for themes and styles

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Advocates a concrete pattern: use theme attributes (prefer library attrs from AppCompat/MaterialComponents) so a single semantic change (colorAccent, text appearance) ripples across the app; apply themes at the View level via android:theme on a View or ContextThemeWrapper (API 21, back‑ported) to avoid duplicate styles; tint drawables and prefer vectors, using DrawableCompat and AppCompat.Resources plus color state lists with separated alpha (Marshmallow behavior) to retheme the forked DevSummit app with only a few semantic color changes.

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" chapters (5)

1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:31Material Design
3. 6:03Theme Attributes
4. 12:07Themes and Styles
5. 16:20Themes and Attributes

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