Lesson Plan: Unit - 03
Subject: P15A2AAD - Android Application Development
Topic of Study: Working with Styles and Themes
Grade/Level: Master of Computer Applications
Objective: To understand and difference between styles and themes
Time Allotment: 55 Minutes
- Working with styles and themes
- A style is a collection of properties that specify the look and format for a View or window.
- A style can specify properties such as height, padding, font color, font size, background color, and much more.
- A theme is a style applied to an entire Activity or application, rather than an individual View.
- For example, you can apply the same CodeFont style as a theme for an Activity and then all text inside that Activity will have green monospace font.
- Defining Style:
- To create a set of styles, save an XML file in the res/values/ directory of your project.
- The root node of the XML file must be
. - For each style you want to create, add a
