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thepoosh
thepoosh

Reputation: 12587

Force a theme to @android:drawables supporting low level APIs

is there a way to force a button using system resources such as @android:drawable/ic_menu_send be with the background I choose?

the default is this:

ic_menu_send light

and the desired one for me is this:
enter image description here

Upvotes: 1

Views: 854

Answers (2)

stephan
stephan

Reputation: 527

I would recommend to use the desired icon from the "Action Bar Icon Pack" provided by Google referenced on http://developer.android.com/design/style/iconography.html#action-bar

There you will find the icon 6_social_send_now.png for holo_light and holo_dark theme.

One reason to not reference system icons directly from the SDK is given in "The Busy Coder's Guide to Android" by Mark L. Murphy: "However, there is a risk: device manufacturers are welcome to replace these drawables with their own artwork." and those might not fit to the other (selfmade) icons in your app.

Upvotes: 2

jhole
jhole

Reputation: 4236

Did you try style attributes starting with "?": ?android:drawable/ic_menu_send

Update:

As it seems it is not that easy. First you have to check for which drawables there is an entry in the SDK resources, e.g. look in folder android-sdk/platforms/android-15/data/res of your Android SDK installation. There you can grep for your drawable.

In the following example we find that there is no entry for ic_menu_send in themes.xml (only in public.xml) and therefore no entry for the corresponding attribute in attrs.xml.

A drawable which would work is ic_menu_share where we can find entries in themes.xmland attrs.xml so we can use the style attribute in the following way android:src="?android:actionModeShareDrawable"

jh@jh-aspire:/opt/android-sdk/platforms/android-15/data/res$ grep -r ic_menu_send *
values/public.xml:  <public type="drawable" name="ic_menu_send" id="0x01080050" />

jh@jh-aspire:/opt/android-sdk/platforms/android-15/data/res$ grep -r ic_menu_share *
values/public.xml:  <public type="drawable" name="ic_menu_share" id="0x01080052" />
values/themes.xml:        <item name="actionModeShareDrawable">@android:drawable/ic_menu_share_holo_dark</item>
values/themes.xml:        <item name="actionModeShareDrawable">@android:drawable/ic_menu_share_holo_light</item>
values/themes.xml:        <item name="actionModeShareDrawable">@android:drawable/ic_menu_share_holo_dark</item>
values/themes.xml:        <item name="actionModeShareDrawable">@android:drawable/ic_menu_share_holo_light</item>
values/themes.xml:        <item name="actionModeShareDrawable">@android:drawable/ic_menu_share_holo_dark</item>

jh@jh-aspire:/opt/android-sdk/platforms/android-15/data/res$ grep -r actionModeShareDrawable *
menu/webview_copy.xml:        android:icon="?android:attr/actionModeShareDrawable"
values/attrs.xml:        <attr name="actionModeShareDrawable" format="reference" />
values/themes.xml:        <item name="actionModeShareDrawable">@android:drawable/ic_menu_share_holo_dark</item>
values/themes.xml:        <item name="actionModeShareDrawable">@android:drawable/ic_menu_share_holo_light</item>
values/themes.xml:        <item name="actionModeShareDrawable">@android:drawable/ic_menu_share_holo_dark</item>
values/themes.xml:        <item name="actionModeShareDrawable">@android:drawable/ic_menu_share_holo_light</item>
values/themes.xml:        <item name="actionModeShareDrawable">@android:drawable/ic_menu_share_holo_dark</item>

Upvotes: 0

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