Question

I have a theme in my app that defines a custom color for the background. This is the green you see above the tabwidget.

In some of my Activities I’m using a Tabhost for my Layout.
Now I get something like this as a result:

alt text http://janusz.de/~janusz/tabHostStyle.png

My tabwidget has a black background and I’m happy with that, but the icons in the tabwidget are transparent and this leads to them showing the green background defined in my style.

How can I define the tabhost as not styled and have the transparent icons show the tabwidget the resion on instead of a solid background color?

Answer 1

I found a solution to my problem.

I changed my style from

  <item name="android:background">@color/light_green</item>
</style>

to:

  <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/light_green</item>
</style>

This causes the window to have the correct background but it won’t override all the backgrounds in undefined views.