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gurehbgui
gurehbgui

Reputation: 14684

How to set the holo dark theme in a Android app?

How can I set the dark holo theme in my app? At this time I got this:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light" />

But when I change it to:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Dark" />

I get an error error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:Theme.Holo.Dark'.

How to solve the problem?

Upvotes: 112

Views: 117070

Answers (4)

nikoo28
nikoo28

Reputation: 2971

In your application android manifest file, under the application tag you can try several of these themes.

Replace

<application
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

with different themes defined by the android system. They can be like:-

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault.Dialog"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent"

Each of these themes will have a different effect on your application like the DeviceDefault.Dialog will make your application look like a dialog box. You should try more of these. You can have a look from the android sdk or simply use auto complete in Eclipse IDE to explore the various available options.

A correct way to define your own theme would be to edit the styles.xml file present in the resources folder of your application.

Upvotes: 1

Peter Shannon
Peter Shannon

Reputation: 315

According the android.com, you only need to set it in the AndroidManifest.xml file:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html#ApplyATheme

Adding the theme attribute to your application element worked for me:

--AndroidManifest.xml--

...

<application ...

  android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo"/>
  ...

</application>

Upvotes: 8

Anup Cowkur
Anup Cowkur

Reputation: 20563

By default android will set Holo to the Dark theme. There is no theme called Holo.Dark, there's only Holo.Light, that's why you are getting the resource not found error.

So just set it to:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo" />

Upvotes: 29

Lars Werkman
Lars Werkman

Reputation: 2528

change parent="android:Theme.Holo.Dark" to parent="android:Theme.Holo"

The holo dark theme is called Holo

Upvotes: 223

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