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CodingChap
CodingChap

Reputation: 1118

Is textAppearance and inbuilt theme attribute in Android?

I've been learning more concepts in Android and came across textAppearance.

android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"

I did some research on this and came to the conclusion that this syntax refers to attributes in the Theme whereas @ syntax refers to resources in the project / framework.

However, in my theme.xml file, I didn't define any item by the name of textAppearanceLarge. Therefore, I was wondering, is textAppearance and inbuilt item in the theme which Android provides?

Also, some background information on this topic would be really helpful.

Thank you!!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 128

Answers (2)

Dinkar Kumar
Dinkar Kumar

Reputation: 2250

Yes textAppearance is inbuilt property of Android SDK.

TextAppearance allows you to define text-specific styling while leaving a View’s style available for other uses. Note, however, that if you define any text attributes directly on the View or in a style, those values would override the TextAppearance values.

TextAppearance supports a subset of styling attributes that TextView offers. For the full attribute list.

You can also read the following blog by Google developer to understand it in deep.

https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/whats-your-text-s-appearance-f3a1729192d

And also can refer to google documentation to understand the technical aspect of it. https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/themes#textappearance

Upvotes: 1

Kamal Nayan
Kamal Nayan

Reputation: 1718

Use ctrl+ mouse_left_cllick to explore .......basically, it will direct you to the exact code.

Upvotes: 0

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