Questions tagged [declare-styleable]
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Declaring styleable attributes in Android
There's precious little documentation about the declare-styleable tag by which we can declare custom styles for components. I did find this list of valid values for the format attribute of the attr tag. While that's nice as far as it goes, it…
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How to declare several stylable attributes with the same name for different tags?
I want both my ViewA and ViewB to have the "title" tag. But I can't put this in attrs.xml:
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Get the resource id for the drawable reference used in styled attribute
Having this custom view MyView I define some custom attributes:
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Difference between declare-styleable and style
I've begun playing around with styles and such in my android applications, and I have gotten everything working so far. I quite understood the 'style' section of the guide.
But, looking around, as in this thread, I can't really figure out the…
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ERROR: In MenuView, unable to find attribute android:preserveIconSpacing
I had created an app and when tried to run,get an error like this.
ERROR: In MenuView, unable to find attribute android:preserveIconSpacing
Problems
and at end of R.java
please help me to fix this issue
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How to define an array of integers in a declare-styleable?
I'm implementing my own for a custom View (following the instructions here). I'd like to be able to specify an array of integers as one of the possible XML attributes. How do I:
Specify the integer array as an XML attribute in…
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Creating default values for custom attributes using styles and themes
I have several custom Views in which I have created custom styleable attributes that are declared in xml layout and read in during the view's constructor. My question is, if I do not give explicit values to all of the custom attributes when…
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Android library project uses declare-styleable -- how to compile?
I have a custom preferences control that I have defined a few attributes for in values/attrs.xml. Just to focus the conversation, here is an example of attributes that could be found in values/attrs.xml:
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Android: How to get an attribute from a super class of a custom view
I have a custom view A that has a TextView. I Made a method that returns the resourceID for the TextView. If no text is defined the method will return -1 by default.
I also have a custom view B that inherits from view A. My custom view has the text…
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Can someone explain me declare-styleable XML tag in this example and the theory behind its use?
I'm reading Beginning Android 4 Development and in chapter 5 it talks about Gallery and ImageVievs and introduces the declare-styleable XML tag without explaining its purpose.. I tried to find some info also on the reference, without luck.. For…
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What's the point of declare-styleable?
Suppose I am making some new views with styleable attributes. I declare them thusly (this is how the documentation says to do it:
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Android: How do you have multiple attr with same enum?
I have an attr defined as an enum with a list of values:
I would like to use multiple attr with different names within the…
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Changing theme of an activity without recreating activity
I have an activity . In that on a button click I want to change the theme but everywhere I found that theme can be set only once and that too before setContentView.
Restarting an activity is not an option for me. Maybe using attrs has to do…
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Android custom layout attribute "reference attribute" format?
I have a custom view (that extends viewgroup) and I have specified some custom attributes defined in attrs.xml....
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Exception thrown during TypedArray#getTextArray()
This is my first time creating a custom view and I'm trying to populate it with entries via XML -- in a manner similar to a Spinner. I'm obviously doing something wrong here, but I've styled my approach after the Spinner, so I fail to see what has…
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