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Android: How To Use Different Themes For Different Android Versions?

The document discusses how to use different themes for different Android versions. It describes having a MinSDKVersion of 7 and TargetSDKVersion of 17, and wanting to set the theme to Theme.Holo.Light for devices 11 or higher. It shows file structure with values folders for different versions, but the theme is not changing correctly. The response suggests removing the duplicate theme definitions and creating separate values folders for different languages to properly support multiple themes and languages.

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Android: How To Use Different Themes For Different Android Versions?

The document discusses how to use different themes for different Android versions. It describes having a MinSDKVersion of 7 and TargetSDKVersion of 17, and wanting to set the theme to Theme.Holo.Light for devices 11 or higher. It shows file structure with values folders for different versions, but the theme is not changing correctly. The response suggests removing the duplicate theme definitions and creating separate values folders for different languages to properly support multiple themes and languages.

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Android: How to use different themes for different android versions?

MinSDKVersion = 7 TargetSDKVersion = 17

If the user have SDKVersion 11 or higher I like to set the theme to Theme.Holo.Light. It doesn't works for me
here. When I launch the app on a 3.1 device it just uses the Theme.Light:

Same when I run this app on a device with lower version than 3.1

My Folderstructure:

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Manifest:

<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/MyTheme" >

values-v11:

<resources>

<!­­
Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
by AppBaseTheme from res/values­vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
­­>
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light">
<!­­
Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
res/values­vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
backward­compatibility can go here.
­­>
</style>

<!­­ Application theme. ­­>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light">
<!­­ All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API­level can go here
</style>

<style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">


<!­­ Any customizations for your app running on devices with Theme.Holo here ­­>
</style>

other values folders:

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<resources>

<!­­
Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
by AppBaseTheme from res/values­vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
­­>
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light">
<!­­
Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
res/values­vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
backward­compatibility can go here.
­­>
</style>

<!­­ Application theme. ­­>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light">
<!­­ All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API­level can go here
</style>

<style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light">


<!­­ Any customizations for your app running on devices with Theme.Holo here ­­>
</style>

How can I use this correctly?

Sincerely Marco Seiz

android themes manifest

asked Jan 15 at 10:15


Marco Seiz
126 18

2 Answers

Why do you have your theme twice in your styles.xml file?

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light">


<!­­ All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API­level can go here
</style>

<style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">


<!­­ Any customizations for your app running on devices with Theme.Holo here ­­>
</style>

Delete the one you don't need(In this case the Theme.Light theme):

values-v11:

<style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">


<!­­ Any customizations for your app running on devices with Theme.Holo here ­­>
</style>

values:

<style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light">


<!­­ Any customizations for your app running on devices with Theme.Holo here ­­>
</style>

answered Jan 15 at 10:21


Ahmad
15.5k 5 27 62

I did that but it still showed the old theme and not the holo theme on my android 4.1 AND 3.1 device–
Marco Seiz Jan 15 at 10:27

Did you delete the duplications?– AhmadJan 15 at 10:28

Yep I did. I figured out the error. I had to create two folders for one language. For german: values-de AND values-
de-v11 and same for english... It works now :) Thanks for your helps and tips!– Marco Seiz Jan 15 at 10:33

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Place the solution provided by @Ahmad in new files called themes.xml on the directories he said :-)

If you'll use multilanguage and multithemes, you can take a look at a similar question I did some minutes
before... and got answered:

Multilanguage and multitheme at same time

answered Jan 15 at 10:33


Xavi
25 5

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