I'm trying to change all the TextColor of my buttons in my app to white and also trying to make it bold. But that isn't happening, I'm overwriting the android:Widget.Button
I'm developing for Jelly Bean 4.1.2
What am I doing wrong?
Theme definition in manifest
android:theme="@style/spui" >
The theme where I like to
<style name="spui" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/Buttonspui</item>
</style>
The style for the button itself
<style name="Buttonspui" parent="android:Widget.Button">
<item name="android:background">@drawable/btn_default_holo_light</item>
<item name="android:minHeight">48dip</item>
<item name="android:minWidth">64dip</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
</style>
The button
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
android:text="@string/edit"
android:id="@+id/btnEdit"
style="@style/Buttonspui"/>
For styling your Button
you can use this:
Go to the drawable
folder and make an XML (e.g. button.xml
) file called "style" which contains the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
<shape>
<gradient android:startColor="#449def" android:endColor="#2f6699" android:angle="270" />
<stroke android:width="1px" android:color="#000000" />
<corners android:bottomLeftRadius="0dp"
android:bottomRightRadius="0dp"
android:topLeftRadius="8dp"
android:topRightRadius="8dp"/>
<padding android:left="10dp" android:top="10dp" android:right="10dp" android:bottom="10dp" />
</shape>
</item>
</selector>
This is my code, you can make the necessary changes you want
Now call it in your layout XML (mainactivity.xml
) like this
android:background="@drawable/button.xml"
Now to change the font color and style you can use the following which comes as part of the styles.xml
in the values folder
<style name="buttonStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Button.Small">
<item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
<item name="android:textSize">12sp</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
</style>
Now call this in the layout XML (mainactivity.xml
) like this
style="@style/buttonStyle"
The final code is:
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
android:text="@string/edit"
android:id="@+id/btnEdit"
android:background="@drawable/button.xml"
style="@style/buttonStyle"
/>
Hope this helps :)