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burseaner
burseaner

Reputation: 905

Experimenting with styles => No resource found that matches the given name: attr

I try to develop an app for API 8 but do not have any experience with styles.xml. For activities in the app I use Theme.Light. After playing with styles I got the error above. I've also checked other posts on this portal and I tried many suggestions but I could not get further. The styles.xml is below and hopefully someone will come with suggestions.

<resources>

<!--
    Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
    by AppBaseTheme from res/values-vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
-->
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <!--
        Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
        res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
        backward-compatibility can go here.
    -->
</style>

<!-- Application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    <!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
</style>

 <style name="ContactLabelTextView">
    <item name="layout_width">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="layout_height">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="layout_gravity">left|center_vertical</item>
    <item name="layout_marginLeft">15dp</item>
    <item name="layout_marginRight">5dp</item>
    <item name="layout_marginTop">5dp</item>
    <item name="clickable">false</item>
    <item name="longClickable">false</item>
    <item name="textSize">14sp</item>
    <item name="textAppearance">?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/black</item>
    <item name="layout_marginBottom">5dp</item>
</style>

<style name="ContactMultiplineText" >
    <item name="layout_width">match_parent</item>
    <item name="layout_height">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="layout_marginLeft">15dp</item>
</style>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1317

Answers (2)

burseaner
burseaner

Reputation: 905

After reading the post recommended by Alexander Zhak I have better understanding of styles. Therefore, I made some modifications to my styles.xml and it works. Those modifications are:

... 
<style name="ContactLabelTextView" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Medium">
    <item name="android:textSize">14sp</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/black</item>
    <item name="android:longClickable">false</item>
    <item name="android:clickable">false</item>
</style>

<style name="ContactLabelTextView.Layout">
    <item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="android:layout_gravity">left|center_vertical</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginLeft">15dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginRight">5dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginTop">5dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginBottom">5dp</item>
</style>

<style name="ContactMultiplineText">
    <item name="android:layout_width">match_parent</item>
    <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginLeft">15dp</item>
</style>
...

Upvotes: 1

Rod_Algonquin
Rod_Algonquin

Reputation: 26198

You need to have a parent style to enable you to call the attributes of it.

sample:

 <style name="ContactLabelTextView" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Medium">

The above code is used when you want your textView as a Medium size text, you can still change it what ever size you want for your TextView.

Upvotes: 0

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