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Patrickmotox
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02/20/14 09:55 PM (11 years ago)

Anyone using Android Action Bar Style Generator and using it with Buzztouch 3.0

If you are. Could I ask you what you have to do to get it to work. not much instruction on the page where you generate. I get the basics, just don't know if there is something specific with Buzztouch. I can't seem to get it to work. Cheers. kind regards Patrick
 
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02/20/14 10:47 PM (11 years ago)
Is this the same as Action Bar Sherlock? I spent a couple days trying to integrate it, but didn't succeed. I am not a strong Android developer, though, so maybe others have have done it.
 
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02/20/14 11:08 PM (11 years ago)
BT apps use a light holo theme. In case you generate and integrate a styled theme by the generator you need to do a lot of work to replace the default bt holo theme with the theme generated. You will have to edit all the activities (in case of bt 2.0) and / or BT_activity_host and BT_activity_start activities (in case of BT 3.0) in the manifest file relating to the theme. Other than that there will be lot of image files, xml files which will be generated with the style generator which need to be put in respective folders but most of them would be useless since your app might not use them and this on other hand will increase the size of your app.
 
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02/21/14 05:02 PM (11 years ago)
It is not the same as action bar Sherlock. Actually a web site where you pick your colors and the images and xml is generated. Since I am using 3.0 only, I understand about putting the images and xml that is generated into my project. I also understand about referencing in the Manifest. Just don't know how this theme is called by host and start activities. I edited the themes xml file that was supplied to point to the Name that those activities use, but I still get the same action bar and tab colors. Hmmmm. Sandeep, Have you actually used it before. What did you have to edit? Thanks Patrick
 
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02/21/14 10:14 PM (11 years ago)
Actually i used the stock dark holo theme different than what the BT themes has while the new core 3 was still in testing mode. I do not use core 3 yet for my bt apps coz i am comfortable with the older version so, i have not tinkered a lot with the new core. You have to define the style in the theme.xml file which is in the res-->values folder. In such cases i keep the default bt themes as they are and add new theme styles. Then in manifest file i change the values of particular activity to run thee theme i created like for eg- android:theme="@style/MyThemeTitle"
 

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