Using Action bar style generator with holo colors generator

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To style my android application an make it more beautiful, i have used the action bar style generator to create a theme and Action holo color generator

They both give me a res folder when i extract and i want to use both of them in my application, but am not sure if thats allowed or would create some conflicts.

I would like to know how i can include both of them in my app. Thanks

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There is no 3rd party tool available for this, you have to do it manually, copy/paste all the files into the particular folder and you have to merge styles.xml into your actual project styles.xml file. – Paresh Mayani
how do i edit my manifest file to use these two? – SamAko
Sorry there is no ready made tool available which can you give you ready manifest file by merging! – Paresh Mayani

2 Answers

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There is a pretty good write up on how to do this - have a look at this: http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2012/09/creating-custom-android-styles-easy-way.html

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As the link in Wayne May's answer suggests, you just have to make the ActionBar theme extends the Holo color's theme.

Here are the steps needed to get this to work:

  1. Chose a prefix for your themes (the last part of your app's package name for example)
  2. Generate and download a theme for you action bar using ActionBarStyleGenerator. Name this theme <prefix>_ActionBar.
  3. Generate and download a theme for your widgets using Android Holo Colors Generator. Name this theme <prefix>_Widgets.
  4. Unzip the files you downloaded in your resource folder (be careful not to overwrite anything).
  5. Edit the files values/<prefix>_actionbar_styles.xml and values-v14/<prefix>_actionbar_styles.xml to replace every occurrence of parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat" with parent="@style/<prefix>_Widgets"
  6. Use <prefix>_ActionBar as your theme (or as your theme's parent)