[Re]Coloring Android Apps.

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Covers how to recolor most Android drawables at runtime using Android SDK XML and Java, VectorDrawableCompat, Android Asset Studio and ColorStateList; explains Porter‑Duff blend modes for tint math and shows that tinting via Resources often hits a surprising drawable tint caching bug where a recolored drawable stays recolored in the resource cache; documents theme/style limits (hard to change programmatically), vector backward‑compat quirks tied to Gradle, and a small library called Celia hood that automates stateful coloring and works in production.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:24Why app colors matter
3. 3:30Android styles and themes
4. 7:55XML styling options
5. 11:31Drawables and coloring modes
6. 17:35Vector drawables and compatibility
7. 21:56Color state lists
8. 26:41Dynamic coloring demo
9. 30:40Q&A

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