Android widget with multiple color themes

Question

What is the best method to set a widget colors theme saved on SharedPreferences. Users choose their preferred colors theme and programatically I set the theme.

For example I have two styles for a TextView with id "widgetThemeDate":

<style name="widgetThemeDate" parent="@style/widgetThemeLight">
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorWhite</item>     
</style>

<style name="widgetThemeDate" parent="@style/widgetThemeDark">
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorBlack</item>     
</style>

In this case I receive the following error: "error: Resource entry widgetThemeDate already has bag item android:textColor."

How can I set "widgetThemeDate" color depending user's choice?

Kurtis Nusbaum · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-28 16:48:09Z

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You can't set whole themes on a view programatically (see this discussion), but you can change certain aspects progamatically. For instance. you case you could use the setTextColor() method to change the color of text programatically on ay TextView.

answered Oct 28, 2011 at 16:48

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bogdanmogo Over a year ago

I want to define the colors on styles.xml and programatically switch them to set the widget colors. Forget about the themes; Now I mean only to colors and switching them. How is the best way to do that.

bogdanmogo Over a year ago

I think the best way is to declare multiple widget.xml files (for example widget_black.xml or widget_white.xml) with different TextViews ids (for example android:id="@+id/widgetAMPMColorBlack" and set different styles in styles.xml.

bogdanmogo Over a year ago

Kurtis, check the result here: mogoolab.com/portfolio/android-flowers-clock-widget Thanks again.

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