Android: How to change theme attributes dynamically at runtime from code

Asked Jan 07 '15 at 18:00

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I'm using AppCompat, my app has dynamic color themes. I want to be able to change the primaryColor and accentColor attributes so that UI elements will match the theme colors (e.g. progress bars, check boxes, etc.).

I can manually set colors for a lot of views, but that gets complicated for elements like checkboxes and progress bars where I do not want to generate my own drawable. Obviously using static XML doesn't work for this either.

Is changing theme attributes for an Activity possible from code?

asked Jan 07 '15 at 18:00

afollestad

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Pallete class can be used. – Simar Jan 07 '15 at 18:07
@Simar I don't want to generate other colors, I already have the colors I want. I'm trying to change global theme colors of the Activity. – afollestad Jan 07 '15 at 18:09
Yeah. That can be done by this class. – Simar Jan 07 '15 at 18:10
I have the same question. Looking forward to an answer – Bobby Jan 07 '15 at 18:17
possible duplicate of [How to \_really\_ programmatically change primary color in Android Lollipop?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25815769/how-to-really-programmatically-change-primary-color-in-android-lollipop) – alanv Jan 07 '15 at 20:05
@Simar no it can't: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/graphics/Palette.html – afollestad Jan 07 '15 at 22:36
You simply can't. Have a look [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25815769/how-to-really-programmatically-change-primary-and-accent-color-in-android-loll). – Rishabh Bhardwaj May 20 '16 at 10:25
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@RishabhBhardwaj I know. I made a library for it. – afollestad May 20 '16 at 22:47

Android: How to change theme attributes dynamically at runtime from code

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