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wildcat
wildcat

Reputation: 285

Android different button styles depending on API level

I want to use the

style="?android:attr/borderlessButtonStyle"

for my buttons. This requires min. API level 11. I want my app to be min API level 9. So I used the styles tag in the default layout folder and createt the folders res/layout-v9 and res/layout-v10 with the same xml-files as in the default layout folder - except for the style tag. I still get the minimum API level 11 error for the XML file in layout folder.

How can I avoid the error and apply the style-tag for API level >= 11 but not for API level < 11?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1556

Answers (2)

Mike P.
Mike P.

Reputation: 1930

borderlessButtonStyle is part of the Holo theme, which is why it's not available below API Level 11.

You can however use that theme on earlier API levels by incorporating the HoloEverywhere project into your app.

If that's not what you're looking to do, you'll need to create a custom selector in your drawable folders and use that for button styling instead.

Upvotes: 1

Jonathan Apodaca
Jonathan Apodaca

Reputation: 5788

Did you look at the "Providing Alternative Resrouces" section in this article?:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html

Basically you add a suffix (called a "qualifier" in the linked article) "-v11" for specific API levels (so you would have a special folder named layout-v10, layout-v9, etc., each with the desired layout file in that folder). I'm not sure if there's a way to specify a range of API levels, though (i.e., less than 11, vs. greater than 11).

Just as an aside: this is what's actually going on with providing differently sized icons with the same name: you'll notice that Android projects created in eclipse have drawable-ldpi, drawable-mdpi, etc., as well as the "catch-all' drawable folders as a means for specifying alternative resources.

Upvotes: 0

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