How to have multiple theme in my android app?

Question

This is the home screen of my app. I have used Drawable and Color resources in the design. Now I want to have multiple color sets (for the parts with cyan color) so user can change them at run time. I searched a lot, but they don't fit my case.

Note that I want just the cyan colored parts to change. I know I can change all the TextView styles using style attribute, but I just need certain views get certain drawables or colors as background.

I found a solution here but I cannot use it because it needs the min sdk higher than 21 while mine is 16.

Home screen

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '19 at 06:53

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You can easily set theme like this:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    setTheme(R.style.your_theme);
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity)
}

answered Oct 08 '19 at 06:53

Amjad Alwareh

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Thanks but not my case – sajjad Oct 08 '19 at 07:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '19 at 07:15

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Define your style in values/styles.xml like so:

<style name="AppTheme.MyTheme" parent="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primaryColorCyan</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primaryDarkColorCyan</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/secondaryColorCyan</item>
</style>

And then call setTheme(R.style.MyTheme) before setContentView() in onCreate() method. setTheme introduced in API LEVEL 1.

answered Oct 08 '19 at 07:15

Squti

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Suppose I have a drawable which uses the colorPrimary. How do I reference to it? – sajjad Oct 08 '19 at 07:35
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11376516/change-drawable-color-programmatically/47299270 @Saj – Squti Oct 08 '19 at 09:35

How to have multiple theme in my android app?

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