I've been working on a Custom Control for Android and although I tried to do what's suggested here there seems to be something I'm doing wrong.
Here's my code to see if anyone can spot the problem:
MyComponent.java
public MyComponent(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
{
super(context);
TypedArray arr = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.MyComponent);
CharSequence myId = arr.getString(R.styleable.MyComponent_identifier);
if (myId != null)
{
this.setIdentifier(myId.toString());
}
Integer cds = arr.getInteger(R.styleable.MyComponent_cd_number, 0);
if(cds != null)
{
this.setCds(cds);
}
arr.recycle();
}
attrs.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<declare-styleable name="MyComponent">
<attr name="cd_number" format="integer" />
<attr name="identifier" format="string" />
</declare-styleable>
</resources>
main.xml
<TableLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:bgl="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/my.test.package.components"
android:id="@+id/table"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
...
<my.test.package.MyComponent
android:id="@+id/hand"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_span="2"
bgl:cd_number="4"
bgl:identifier="plr"/>
...
</TableLayout>
When I put this I get the following errors:
error: No resource identifier found for attribute 'cd_number' in package 'my.test.package' error: No resource identifier found for attribute 'identifier' in package 'my.test.package'
If I change my namespace to something like:
xmlns:bgl="http://schemas.mywhatever.com/apk/res/my.test.package"
...the errors go way and the thing runs but myId is null and cds is 0 (the default value!) back on the MyComponent.java constructor.
I'd say it's some very basic mistake but I not being able to spot it and since there's not much documentation on this I decided to ask here.
Thanks in advance!
Ok. I got it solved!
On the original post I had:
xmlns:bgl="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/my.test.package
...but in my source I had:
xmlns:bgl="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/my.test.package.components
...because I thought one should put the URI to the components package.
THIS IS WRONG!
On the xmlns it should be the application name as is declared on the Manifest!
When I removed the "components" part of the xmlns it "matched" the application name in the Manifest and the errors went away and when I ran the thing in debug I could actually see the values I was passing to the parameters in the XML!
Hope this helps someone else! :-)
UPDATE
Later on I had the need to move the control into a library and faced the problem again. It seems that when you put the component in a library and use it on a client app you must declare the xmlns as below:
xmlns:myns="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
If you do so (and have the library declared as an Android dependency) Eclipse (or is it Android?) will search the dependencies for the appropriate attribute bindings.
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