When is a Material theme not a Material theme? That may sound like the first line of a joke, but it is actually a real problem I faced recently. It caused me much noggin scratching until I chanced upon the cause. And you’ll have to wait until the end of the article for the punch…
Category: Themes
Prism Fundamentals – Part 1
IMPORTANT: Updates to Prism are on indefinite hold – more details can be found in the README in the within the Prism source. I have decided to continue publishing this short series because it documents how to use Prism in its current form and so still may be useful. I am extremely excited to announce…
Material – Part 3
In the previous article we applied a colour scheme to our RSS reader app using the appcompat library. In this article we’ll look at styling our text and also take a look at CardView.
Material – Part 2
In the previous article we got a simple app working which is a simple RSS viewer showing a list of recent Styling Android posts, and a detail view when you click on them. In this article we’ll look at applying some material design principles to the app and also try and make it backwards compatible…
Styling the ActionBar – Part 6
In the previous article we got the styling of our ActionBar almost complete – all that’s left to do is apply a style to the ActionMode. In this article we’ll do precisely that.
Styling the ActionBar – Part 5
In the previous article we saw some of the difficulties that we can face when applying styles to the ActionBar. In this article we’ll look at the final control on the main ActionBar: The search control.
Styling the ActionBar – Part 4
In the previous article in this series we applied a style to the navigation Spinner and its associated drop down ListView, but found that this style did not get applied to the Spinner that we added manually using the actionViewClass attribute of the MenuItem definition in our menu XML. In this article we’ll find out…
Styling the ActionBar – Part 3
Previously in this series we have applied a few simple styles to the ActionBar. In this article we’ll have a look at styling the overflow menu and the Navigation DropDown.
Styling the ActionBar – Part 2
In the previous article we used Jeff Gilfelt’s Android ActionBar Style Generator to create some assets and we set up our base Theme. In this article we’ll look at building up our styles to get the ActionBar looking how we would like it.
Styling the ActionBar – Part 1
Recently on Styling Android we’ve been looking at the ActionBar, but this would not be complete without having a look at how we can customise the look and feel of our ActionBar. Up to know the stuff that we’ve looked at on ActionBar has been relatively straightforward, however getting the styling right can be a…