Android: how to use the current theme's colors in a drawable xml?

Question

I have defined two themes with different primary, primary dark, primary light and accent colors.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/accent</item>
</style>

<style name="AppTheme2" parent="AppTheme">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary_2</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark_2</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/accent_2</item>
</style>

AppTheme is default for <application/> Then I set AppTheme2 in specific activities.

In a drawable file xml I'm using the same primary colors of AppTheme defined in colors.xml

The drawable is used in many activities from both themes, so when there is AppTheme2 I see the different colors. Is there a way to make the drawable use the colors of the current theme for the current activity?

e-shfiyut · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-14T12:28:09.850

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You can use this attribute to get color from currently used theme:

android:color="?colorPrimary"

This is possible only for android 5.0 or higher.

edited Jan 14 '19 at 12:28

answered May 25 '16 at 14:58

e-shfiyut

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is there anyway to do this in Android 4? or do i have to make this progrommatically? – kilian eller Jun 01 '16 at 14:16
looks like it... https://developer.android.com/training/material/compatibility.html – e-shfiyut Jun 01 '16 at 14:53
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sadly it doesn't work for my xamarin Project, after changing gradle i get weird exceptions – kilian eller Jun 01 '16 at 20:19
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how to do this programmatically? – Anish Kumar Sep 18 '17 at 10:28
@AnishKumar did you find any solution ? – Bhavin Patel May 17 '21 at 08:39
How to do programmatically? I Tried this https://stackoverflow.com/a/28489543/6333971 but it didn't work – Bhavin Patel May 17 '21 at 08:40

Android: how to use the current theme's colors in a drawable xml?

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