Question

I’m a using a view flow component into my project, which allows the dev to override some attributes, like that :

<org.taptwo.android.widget.TitleFlowIndicator
    ...
    app:footerTriangleHeight="0dip"
    ... />

I am reusing this component into several layouts, and I would like to put the properties into a style.
But when I’m doing this, the parser says Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'app:footerTriangleHeight', even if I add the namespace in the styles file.

Is there a way to do that in android ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Android Application

If you are not using Android Libraries, then here is what you can do:

1. Define custom styleable attribute (I guess you’ve already done that).
2. Do not use your namespace prefix in style items (namespace defaults to current app’s namespace).

Example:

In attrs.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <attr name="testAttr" format="string"/>        
</resources>

In styles.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>        
    <style name="TestStyle" >
      <item name="testAttr">asdf</item>
    </style>        
</resources>

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Android Library

If custom attribute comes from Android Library, you can still use described approach. It theoretically should work, because Android Library’s namespace is the same as application’s (from aapt tool perspective during the build). But I haven’t test this myself.

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If you’re specifying namespace, it will show error. As far as I know, styles do not support xml namespaces. So this will fail:

In styles.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/app.package.name">        
    <style name="TestStyle" >
      <item name="app:testAttr">asdf</item>
    </style>        
</resources>

Parser automatically defaults to current app’s AndroidManifest namespace, though you can not specify this namespace explicitly.