Question

Here’s a resource of mine:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
  <style name="MyTheme">
    <item name="editTextStyle">@android:style/Widget.EditText</item>
  </style>
</resources>

Eclipse doesn’t like it: “No resource found that matches the given name: attr ‘editTextStyle'”

At the same time, if I open Android’s own platforms/android-3/data/res/values/themes.xml, I see that this is clearly being used there:

<resources>
...
  <style name="Theme">
    ...
    <item name="editTextStyle">@android:style/Widget.EditText</item>
    ...

Android documentation encourages to read that very same file to learn about the ins and outs of styling. But how can I actually do the same cool things they do there?

Answer 1

You need to specify the android namespace:

 <item name="android:editTextStyle">@android:style/Widget.EditText</item>

Also, you probably only want to list the items you are overriding, there is really no point in setting it to the default.