How to apply an style to all ImageButtons in Android?

Question

I have the following style in my application.

  <style name="BtnPressed">
      <item name="android:background">@drawable/btn_default</item>
  </style>

Now I want to apply that to all the ImageButtons in my application. I tried to use the solution mentioned in this question but it did not work. I'm using API-7.

Did you take a look at the question portion of that link as well? That user has it set up correctly; you have to create a whole theme using a ` — Cat, Jul 08 '12 at 05:59

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '12 at 07:11

Change your BtnPressed style to this:

<style name="BtnPressedStyle" parent="Widget.ImageButton">
  <item name="android:background">@drawable/btn_default</item>
</style>

Define an application-wide theme/style:

<style name="MyTheme" parent="android:Theme">
   <item name="android:imageButtonStyle">@style/BtnPressedStyle</item>
</style>

Then apply it to your application tag of the manifest:

<application theme="@style/MyTheme" ... />

Let me know if this works, I adapted it from my code that overrides application-wide button style, but ImageButton should work just as well.

score -5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '12 at 06:03

-5

You can also spend about 5 minutes in your IDE (notepad++ will do) and search and replace ImageView on xmls , and a little snippet for image views generated in code. I don't think it's so wrong, and will help you to maintain the app.

answered Jul 08 '12 at 06:03

Chen Kinnrot

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That wouldn't be a very efficient way of doing it. – 2hamed Jul 08 '12 at 06:11
But bad practice. DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself. – donturner Aug 29 '12 at 14:37

How to apply an style to all ImageButtons in Android?

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