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FedeAmura
FedeAmura

Reputation: 168

AppCompat Material Style widget tint error

Im using the appcompat_v7 library.

In the documentation say:

[...] AppCompat provides similar behaviour on earlier versions of Android for a subset of UI widgets:

Everything provided by AppCompat’s toolbar (action modes, etc)

This is my code:

values/styles.xml

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/material_blue_grey_800</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/material_blue_grey_950</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/material_deep_teal_200</item>
</style>

layout/activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context="com.example.lollipoptest.MainActivity" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/hello_world" />

<CheckBox
    android:id="@+id/checkBox1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_marginTop="28dp"
    android:text="CheckBox" />

<RadioButton
    android:id="@+id/radioButton1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/checkBox1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:text="RadioButton" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editText1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/radioButton1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:ems="10" >

    <requestFocus />
</EditText>

No changes in the default MainActivity.java

The actionbar show the new Material style. The edittext too. But the checkbox and the radiobutton not. What im doing wrong?

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Upvotes: 4

Views: 10568

Answers (3)

matiash
matiash

Reputation: 55380

This was a bug in AppCompat r22, some widgets (such as Button, Checkbox, and RadioButton) were not using the material-like backgrounds in Android 2.2/2.3.

It's fixed in AppCompat r22.1.

In short, it's no longer necessary to manually set abc_btn_check_material and similar resources as the background drawable for these widgets; the library does it automatically.

Upvotes: 1

FedeAmura
FedeAmura

Reputation: 168

I found a solution:

 <CheckBox
        android:id="@+id/chbDevuelto"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
        android:button="@drawable/abc_btn_check_material"
        android:buttonTint="@color/colorAccent"
        android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
        android:focusable="false" />

this lines do the trick:

android:button="@drawable/abc_btn_check_material" android:buttonTint="@color/colorAccent"

works in all versions :3

Upvotes: 11

Kevin van Mierlo
Kevin van Mierlo

Reputation: 9824

I don't think it will work for these versions. It simulates the tint used in lollipop. In versions lower than 4.0 radio buttons and checkboxes are just images. This is difficult to tint. Appcompat tints what it can tint. Try version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), from that version it will probably work.

Take a look at this, it is an article written by Chris Banes about Appcompat v21. https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/17/appcompat-v21/

You could use 4.0 as minimum SDK version. You have approximately 85% of the devices with supporting from 4.0. It also saves you a lot of trouble. Here is a link for more information: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Upvotes: 2

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