Question

I want to overload how an android Button looks, except I want to overload only one attribute i.e. the android:background. I know I could write something like:

<style name="App_TextButtonStyle" parent="???">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/filled_roundededges_nostroke</item>
</style>

Where parent="???" specifies which style I inherit from. My question is which style should I inherit from do that I get everything from the android default style for buttons and just define a new background.

Answer 1

This is mostly for future visitors, I found a solution to the problem:

<style name="App_TextButtonStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Button">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/filled_roundededges_nostroke</item>
</style>

@android:style/Widget.Button references the default style of the button in the currently selected theme. You could also use the holo widget button style @android:style/Widget.Holo.Button (available since api 11).

You might want to look in <android-sdk-install-folder>/platforms/android-XX/data/res/values for the files styles.xml and themes.xml to check out all styles android uses for a given platform version.