Question

I’m trying to implement the holo theme for my app, so far so good…
but the app didn’t work on older devices pre 3.0

so I made a custom theme, in values dir and values-v11 dir to make android switch to the correct one on runtime…

I also set the target sdk level to 7 to support android 2.1

now the holo theme isn’t recognized

Am I aiming for something impossible?

What I want is pre 3.0 devices to use the default android theme
and everything that supports holo to use holo theme.

Answer 1

In values/styles.xml:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light">

values-v11/styles.xml:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light" />

values-v14/styles.xml:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault.Light" />