Alert Dialog – Part 1

Recently there was a comment on the article Shape Drawables – part 3 asking if is possible to style an AlertDialog, rather than on an Activity, as is covered in that article. The simple answer is yes. However, it is not without it’s problems as we’ll see later.

Shape Drawables – part 3

In part 2 we got our basic dialog box look and feel working, but still had some tidying up to do. The first things that we need to do it to make the dialog box title look a bit more like a dialog box title. We need to define a new drawable for the background…

Shape Drawables – part 2

In part 1 we set up a basic dialog box project, but it was badly in need of some styling and it didn’t bear much resemblance to a dialog box. Let’s begin part 2 by making this actually appear in a centralised dialog-style window. To do this, we need to begin defining the “dialog” style…

Shape Drawables – part 1

One of the building blocks of styling and themeing Android apps is understanding drawables. Drawables are graphic elements that come in two distinct types: Bitmap Drawables – these are bitmap files such as PNG which are rendered as images by the OS. They can also be 9-patch bitmaps which enable the OS to anamorphically distort…