On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Bob Kerns <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to be very clear about it -- given the current reality, I suggest > viewing all firmware-defined resources as, well, infirm. >
No. Any resources that are in the public SDK are officially supported resources, there for you to use. Of course any that are not in the public SDK (that is you are accessing them from com.android.internal.R or the resource XML trick involving '*'), then you put yourself at risk for breaking. In fact with the way resources work, you are guaranteed to be broken on everything except the exact build you are compiling against when using non-public resources. The resource compiler dynamically assign the resource identifier for these, so they are basically random, and change constantly. The standard platform has a number of common drawables in the public resources, including the button background: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html There are also a number of styles you can use in your XML to get even more consistent behavior with the default widgets: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html And, often best, the theme has attributes you can use to get a variety of standard visuals, styles, and other appearances that are appropriate for the current theme: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.styleable.html#Theme For example, if you have a View that you want to be styled like a button, you can write in XML something like this: <com.foo.MyView style="?android:attr/buttonStyle" /> -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
