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Leem
Leem

Reputation: 18308

R.styleable can not be resolved, why?

I have a resources.xml file located under direcotry values/ , That's

/values/resources.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<resources> 
    <declare-styleable name="TheMissingTabWidget"> 
        <attr name="android:divider" /> 
    </declare-styleable> 
</resources>

In my java code, when I try to access this resource by R.styleable.TheMissingTabWidget , eclipse complain that styleable cannot be resolved or is not a field. Why? Why I can not access this resource? (I am using android 2.1-updated).

Upvotes: 31

Views: 47038

Answers (8)

Sandeep Dixit
Sandeep Dixit

Reputation: 1036

Copy/paste of code in a file might add imports on the fly. Check your import statements.

The following needs to be removed.

import android.R

File names like attrs.xml, colors.xml do not matter. This is only for organizing better.

Entry has to be in a xml file under folder values (folder name matters) For convention lets keep attrs.xml

Any of the following entries are OK. You do not need a fully qualified class name.

  <declare-styleable name="com.mycom.app.MyClass">
        <attr name="isSelected" format="boolean"/>
    </declare-styleable>

  <declare-styleable name="MyClass">
        <attr name="isSelected" format="boolean"/>
  </declare-styleable>

In fact, a fully qualified name will be a bit of extra pain. Will make the resource name too long when you access it in class.

Upvotes: 0

Amin Turkzadeh
Amin Turkzadeh

Reputation: 21

Simply be sure use :

import com.<your-package>.R

not:

import android.R

Upvotes: 2

m_katsifarakis
m_katsifarakis

Reputation: 1907

In my case I had inadvertently done import android.R instead of import com.<mypackage>.R.

Replace <mypackage> with your package name (or just delete the current import and let Android Studio do the rest).

Upvotes: 15

pzulw
pzulw

Reputation: 1746

I had an undefined styleable error showing in Android Studio, but then I noticed the build was successful. I did Invalidate Caches & Restart and the problem went away.
(It took me far too long to figure it out.)

Upvotes: 3

Ishan Fernando
Ishan Fernando

Reputation: 2858

You can access your package level stylable like this

<yourpackagename>.R.styleable.name

Upvotes: 5

xevincent
xevincent

Reputation: 3734

According to the SDK Release Notes,

The android.R.styleable class and its fields were removed from the public API, to better ensure forward-compatibility for applications. The constants declared in android.R.styleable were platform-specific and subject to arbitrary change across versions, so were not suitable for use by applications. You can still access the platform's styleable attributes from your resources or code. To do so, declare a custom resource element using a in your project's res/values/R.attrs file, then declare the attribute inside. For examples, see "sdk"/samples/ApiDemos/res/values/attrs.xml. For more information about custom resources, see Custom Layout Resources. Note that the android.R.styleable documentation is still provided in the SDK, but only as a reference of the platform's styleable attributes for the various elements.

Have a look to the ApiDemos code and the file res/values/attrs.xml

Upvotes: 18

IgorGanapolsky
IgorGanapolsky

Reputation: 26831

What you need to do is declare your styleable in attrs.xml, not resources.xml. Then you'll be able to refer to it from your code like this:

R.styleable.TheMissingTabWidget

Upvotes: 0

Arun
Arun

Reputation: 275

plz make values/attrs.xml resources like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <declare-styleable name="**com.admob.android.ads.AdView**"><--- where u want to use
       <attr name="backgroundColor" format="color" />
       <attr name="TextColor" format="color" />
       <attr name="keywords" format="string" />
       <attr name="refreshInterval" format="integer" />
    </declare-styleable>
</resources>

Upvotes: 23

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