In this part of my Android tutorial I will focus on Android Styles and Themes. A style specifies a collection of properties that specify how a widget looks. A theme is a series of styles that are applied to an Activity.
We’ll make different styles for different versions of Android. We’ll create styles to apply to single and multiple widgets. We’ll cover inheriting styles, default themes, applying themes and much more.
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Here is the URL I mentioned in the video Android R.stylable
Cheat Sheets From the Video
AndroidManifest.xml
values/styles.xml
values-v11/styles.xml
values-v14/styles.xml
activity_my.xml
Hello Derek, Im a IOS programmer and learning android (thanks to your tutorials).
I was planning on developing a location based social networking app for iOS in which you would be able to sign in, add friends, create pages… just a small project actually.
However, I don’t know anything about backend programming, databases or web services. I only know how to program objective-c apps with no networking capabilities whatsoever. What do I need to learn to do so and do you know any good books, tutorial or reference about social networking apps?
Thank you very much Derek I am a huge fan and I’m really sorry for your loss last week.
Stay strong!
You’re very welcome 🙂 I’m glad you like the videos. I am going to make a learn PHP in 30 minutes tutorial very soon. That will be followed by a web services tutorial. It should be up in no longer then 2 weeks. I hope it helps
OMG! Thats awesome Derek! Realllyy looking forward to it!! Thank you for your reply!
Best regards from. Brazil
Hey Derek,
Thanks as always for posting your videos! I had a question about animating widgets programmatically. I was wondering if there is a way to animate, say a button or image view, around the screen or view and still have it be clickable? I know there are ways to animate it though XML, but is there a way to animate it more than just in a linear direction? The only things I can get to animate around the screen are sprites and drawable objects. Thanks in advance.
Hey James, You are very welcome 🙂 Check this out. I think it is what you want.
Thank you very much for the help and response. I’ll read through the link and tailor it to my needs.
James