Question

I am attempting to create a custom android “style” xml. And while everyone else I see out there seems to be using ints, it wont even compile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style  name="DialogStyle"
            parent="android:style/Theme.Dialog"
            >
        <item name="android:background">@color/ReliantCyan</item>
        <item name="android:radius">6</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/White</item>
    </style>
</resources>

gets me:

 .../dialogStyle.xml:7: error: Error: Integer types not allowed (at 'android:radius' with value '6').

I have also tried 6pd and 6px but then it says no strings allowed. What am I doing wrong here?

(any accepted answer must be android 2.2 compatible.)

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I have now also tried:

<dimen name="dRadius">10pd</dimen>

and then

<item name="android:radius">@dimen/dRadius</item>

but I get a very similar error:

 ... error: Error: String types not allowed (at 'dRadius' with value '10pd').

Answer 1

I can’t explain this behavior, exactly. Specifying <item name="android:radius">6dp</item> should be enough.

However, to work around this, we can add a dimension resource (within the same file, even, as long as it’s outside of the style tag), then use that via @dimen.

Something like this:

<resources>
    <dimen name="testradius">6dp</dimen>
    <style ...>
        ...
        <item name="android:radius">@dimen/testradius</item>
        ...
    </style>
</resources>

Make sure to specify it as 6dp (6px should work also), not 6 or 6pd or any variant thereof.