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What is difference among styles.xml and themes.xml

May I know what is the difference between styles.xml and themes.xml? To me, they just look same as both XML are in the same format.

<style name="...     <item name="... 

So, in my app which provide customization coloring, size, drawable, ... do I need both styles.xml and themes.xml as well? How should I decide which XML to put in which file?

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Cheok Yan Cheng Avatar asked Mar 02 '13 03:03

Cheok Yan Cheng


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Out of the whole page of the Styles and Themes. You may be looking for this line.

When you apply a style to a single View in the layout, the properties defined by the style are applied only to that View. If a style is applied to a ViewGroup, the child View elements will not inherit the style properties—only the element to which you directly apply the style will apply its properties. However, you can apply a style so that it applies to all View elements—by applying the style as a theme.

When you apply as theme, it changes everything in scope, depending if you applied it on Activity or Application. Style is more 'local'.

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wtsang02 Avatar answered Oct 07 '22 14:10

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