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pisek
pisek

Reputation: 1439

Style for different dimensions

I have a question considering extending styles in android:

<style name="SomeStyleName" parent="@android:style/DeviceDefault.SegmentedButton">
    <item name="android:layout_width">match_parent</item>
    <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="android:weightSum">2</item>
    <item name="android:dividerPadding">8dip</item>
    <item name="android:paddingTop">0dip</item>
    <item name="android:paddingBottom">0dip</item>
    <item name="android:paddingLeft">0dip</item>
    <item name="android:paddingRight">0dip</item>
</style>

What if I would like to "extend" this default style for sw800dp and only to change one parameter (android:paddingBottom)? Should I write only the parameter? Or all the data? (in values-sw600dp/styles.xml file of course)

Something like?:

<style name="SomeStyleName" >
    <item name="android:paddingBottom">33dip</item>
</style>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 854

Answers (2)

user2648519
user2648519

Reputation: 117

What if I would like to "extend" this default style for sw800dp and only to change one parameter (android:paddingBottom)? Should I write only the parameter? Or all the data? (in values-sw600dp/styles.xml file of course)

you have to copy all the properties to values-sw600dp/styles.xml too.

But you can use the one values/styles.xml for all the screen resolution with the help of values/dimens.xml, values-sw600dp/dimens.xml... and add a dimension for padding_bottom. in all the dimens.xml in different values folder,use this dimen rather than hardcoding eg. android:paddingBottom="@dimen/padding_bottom" in values/styles.xml

so your values/styles.xml look like this:-

<style name="SomeStyleName" parent="@android:style/DeviceDefault.SegmentedButton">
<item name="android:layout_width">match_parent</item>
<item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
<item name="android:weightSum">2</item>
<item name="android:dividerPadding">8dip</item>
<item name="android:paddingTop">0dip</item>
<item name="android:paddingBottom">@dimen/padding_bottom</item>
<item name="android:paddingLeft">0dip</item>
<item name="android:paddingRight">0dip</item>

values/dimens.xml

<dimen name="padding_bottom">0dp</dimen>

values-sw600dp/dimens.xml

<dimen name="padding_bottom">33dip</dimen>

So no need to create values-sw600dp/styles.xml

folder structure look like this:-

  • values/
    • styles.xml
    • dimens.xml
  • values-sw600dp/
    • dimens.xml
  • values-sw720dp/
    • dimens.xml

Upvotes: 1

Sergey Pekar
Sergey Pekar

Reputation: 8745

You can use dimens.xml in values folder And redefine needed dimensions in values-sw600dp and other

for example your main dimens.xml

<resources>

    <!-- Default screen margins, per the Android Design guidelines. -->
    <dimen name="activity_horizontal_margin">16dp</dimen>
    <dimen name="activity_vertical_margin">16dp</dimen>

</resources>

dimens.xml for sw800dp

 <resources>
    <dimen name="activity_horizontal_margin">32dp</dimen>
</resources>

Upvotes: 0

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