Question

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

I made my own theme and added a reference to it in my manifest. Everything looks perfect (buttons, textboxes etc) except for the checkboxes in my custom list.

    android:checkMark="?android:attr/listChoiceIndicatorMultiple"

The checkbox in my listitem is the default checkbox from Theme.Holo and I can’t figure out why.

Grateful for any help!

Answer 1

I am having the same problem. I have no idea why it isn’t choosing the correct checkbox – you can barely see it on the light background. For now, I copied the appropriate holo light checkbox images out the of the android drawable folders and into my project. I then created my own that referenced these images. I then set the android:button attribute to my new selector xml. My selector xml looks like this:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
        <item android:state_checked="true" android:state_focused="true"
                android:drawable="@drawable/btn_check_on_focused_holo_light" /> 
        <item android:state_checked="false" android:state_focused="true"
                android:drawable="@drawable/btn_check_off_focused_holo_light" />
        <item android:state_checked="false"
                android:drawable="@drawable/btn_check_off_holo_light" />
        <item android:state_checked="true"
                android:drawable="@drawable/btn_check_on_holo_light" />
</selector>

Make sure you copy all of the different density images (xhdpi, hdpi, etc.) into your project.