Customizing Theme and Style for Material Design
summary
Practical guide to using AppCompat v7 to get Material Design widgets on pre-Lollipop Android: which AppCompat theme to inherit (Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar vs explicit parent), how textAppearance and locale (English vs Japanese) affect sp sizing, and where color attributes like colorControlActivated and colorAccent actually tint buttons, switches and progress bars. Covers fixes for EditText size/color mismatches, spinner and seekbar quirks, and the correct cross-API way to produce a translucent or colored status bar using windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds with fitsSystemWindows plus API-specific flags.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00Theme and style basics
- 3:41AppCompat library overview
- 8:55Theme types and setup
- 10:25Text color attributes
- 11:54Text appearance customization
- 16:23Color attributes usage
- 18:37AppCompat widget theme attributes
- 25:27EditText styling
- 29:13Spinner styling
- 31:43SeekBar & ProgressBar styling
- 33:18Action bar customization
- 35:09Status bar transparency
- 42:29Status bar transparency steps
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