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Android Styles and Themes in Android Using Styles in Layouts Styling EditTexts and Buttons

Posted by Stanley Aaron Meki
Stanley Aaron Meki
6,345 Points

In this challenge we want to extract a style manually. Start by adding a new empty style named CustomEditText.

In this challenge we want to extract a style manually. Start by adding a new empty style named CustomEditText.

styles.xml 
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <style name "CustomEditText">

</resources>
activity_main.xml 
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/nameField"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:hint="@string/hint_name"
        android:textSize="20sp"
        android:textColor="@color/dark_green" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/cityField"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_below="@id/nameField"
        android:hint="@string/hint_city"
        android:textSize="20sp"
        android:textColor="@color/dark_green" />

</RelativeLayout>
Lidia Kolodziejska
Lidia Kolodziejska
2,057 Points

Hellow, it should be in styles:

<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <style name="CustomEditText">

L.