Developing Themes with Style
summary
Explains why themes (semantic variables applied to a context) beat styles (view-only key/value maps) for app-wide branding, shows how to use theme overlays and ContextThemeWrapper to change subtrees without reloading full themes, and warns about wrong Context use; demos drawable tinting, color state lists with alpha modulation (API 21, theme attrs usable from API 23 or AppCompat backport), mentions 18 blend modes and the IO app’s 60-style / 400-line pitfall, and points to Material Theme Builder on GitHub.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to theming
- 2:16Theming system fundamentals
- 8:14Theme overlays explained
- 13:10Style and theme precedence
- 19:29Working with colors
- 24:06Drawable tinting techniques
- 30:04View tinting and overrides
- 32:11Resource organization rules
- 41:45Material theming components
- 45:54Summary and resources
