How to add custom item in android Theme declaration?

Question

I'm having few custom themes in my styles.xml
Now whenever the activity takes the theme, it uses the colorPrimary, colorPrimaryDark and colorAccent values.
For my layout's background I'm using ?attr/colorAccent, so it can pick the background color based on the selected theme.
If I use any of the above values it works fine. But I want to define a custom item value for my background color.
I tried like this below but it didn't worked. any ideas to make it work ?
My custom theme with custom value:

<style name = "customTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">#4285f4</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#2C75F2</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">#E1FFC7</item>
    <item name="customBgColor">#d3d3d3</item>
</style>

And I want to use it in layout's style as

<style name="layoutStyle" >
    <item name="android:background">?attr/customBgColor</item>
</style>

Tenfour04 · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-01 02:33:20Z

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Create a attrs.xml file shown in image.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

   <!-- Other values-->
   <attr name="customBgColor" format="reference" />

</resources>

customTheme 1

<style name = "customTheme1" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Other values-->
    <item name="customBgColor">#d3d3d3</item>
</style>

customTheme 2

<style name = "customTheme2" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Other values-->
    <!-- Black Color in theme2-->
    <item name="customBgColor">#111111</item>
</style>

Setting Color to TextView as example.

You can use it in similar way in any widget anywhere.

This TextView is used in below activity.

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/txt_rate_us_about"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:text="Rate us on Play Store!"
    android:textColor="?attr/customBgColor"
    android:textSize="20dp" />

Want to set theme dynamically.

public class AboutUsActivity extends Activity {
    
    int theme = 1;
    // int theme = 2;  2nd theme.

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        switch (theme) {
            default:
            case 1:
                this.setTheme(R.style.customTheme1);
                break;
            case 2:
                this.setTheme(R.style.customTheme2);
                break;

        }
        // you must call `setTheme()` before `setContentView()`
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_about);

    }

For multiple activities you have set theme for each of them separately.

edited Sep 1, 2022 at 2:33

Tenfour04

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answered Oct 3, 2016 at 7:47

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2 Comments

Shree Over a year ago

I missed to define attributes, after adding attrs.xml, it's working fine. Thanks @sohail.

gayan1991 Over a year ago

Instead of putting colour codes inside the item. put that in color.xml and add that colour tag into item..

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