Theme Programmatically set. How to reload Activity to apply

Question

How can I apply the Theme without restarting the whole App? If I do it with startActivity(getIntent()); finish(); the Activity quits and dont restart. Is it possible to simply restart / recreate the Activity to apply the theme?

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '12 at 12:26

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It is in the incorrect order.

    finish();
    intent = new Intent(this, <your_activity>.class);
    intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP); 
    intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
    startActivity(intent);

This is the correct order.

Theme can be set before super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); is being called. You need to destroy the activity and create it again and call immediately setTheme(THEME); in onCreate()

answered Mar 10 '12 at 12:26

Dante

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Do you have a answer on this issue? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9686912/actionbarsherlock-restart-to-apply-theme-triggers-wrong-lifecycle-methods – Leandros Mar 13 '12 at 16:53

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 03 '13 at 08:14

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Intent i = getBaseContext().getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage( getBaseContext().getPackageName() );
i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(i);

edited Dec 03 '13 at 08:14

Kamil Budziewski

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answered Dec 03 '13 at 07:54

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Theme Programmatically set. How to reload Activity to apply

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