Question

I’ve been able to override any themes that have names with “android:” prepended to them, but the Android themes.xml also defines properties that don’t seem to be able to be overridden. For example:

<!-- Variation on the Light theme that turns off the title -->
<style name="Theme.Codebase" parent="android:style/Theme.Light">
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
    <item name="colorBackground">@color/off_white</item>
</style>

colorBackground is defined in the Theme.Light xml, but adding this here gives me a

/res/values/styles.xml:10: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'colorBackground'.

error. How do I override that style for the Application as a whole?

Answer 1

You can overwrite standard attributes the same way you modified such properties as windowNoTitle, just don’t forget to add android: prefix like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="SEclubTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme">
        <item name="android:colorForeground">@color/bright_foreground_dark</item>
        <item name="android:colorBackground">@color/background_dark</item>
    </style>
</resources>