Navigation Drawer Android API specific Layout Attribute

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Hello I have created a navigation drawer with ListView navigation using ActionBar Sherlock and android support Library v4 for old version compatbility (my app's minSdkversion="8") in which I have used some attributes for textview in ListView:

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@android:id/title"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceListItemSmall"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:paddingLeft="16dp"
    android:paddingRight="5dp"
    android:textColor="#fff"
    android:background="?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeightSmall"/>

This is showing error as ?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator is from API 11 and ?android:attr/textAppearanceListItemSmall & ?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeightSmall are from API 14.

I managed to support ?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator by replacing it with actionBar Sherlock's ?attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator. But I didn't find any equivalence for other two attributes. There is ?attr/textAppearanceListItemSmall in actionBar Sherlock but it is not properly working.

So what are the equivalence for these attributes to provide support all the API above 2.1 ?

score 31 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 23 '15 at 22:34

To support lower versions, instead of removing the following three parameters,

  android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceListItemSmall" 
  android:background="?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator"
  android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeightSmall"

You can actually replace them with equivalent values/resources.

The equivalent values can be obtained from https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/res/res/values/themes.xml

Now,

a) android:textAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.Medium"
b)
1. Download a selector from https://github.com/habzy/Test0011_DialerPad/blob/master/res/drawable/list_item_activated_background.xml
2. In the above project browse the resources in hdpi,mdpi etc and get files named list_activated_holo.9.png
3. Finally
android:background="@drawable/list_item_activated_background"
c) From the equivalent values obtained , we know that listPreferredItemHeightSmall is 48dip

android:minHeight="48dip"

you can also create API specific styles in values, values-v11 e t.c. — Eugene Smykov, Feb 06 '14 at 04:50
I think there are some corrections needed in step b. These names don't match. — ooolala, Oct 11 '14 at 04:30

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '13 at 11:38

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I am not sure if you really need to use android dimensions (like listPreferredItemHeightSmall etc.) In some android version can that dimension be 12 and in other 14. I suggest you to create your own dimension, which will be used in your whole app, and you can easily edit them when change is needed.

answered Jul 13 '13 at 11:38

Koso

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Hello, I have solved it by setting `50dp 18sp` Thanks a lot! :) – Kaidul Jul 13 '13 at 12:02
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Also a question.This custom dimension seems perfect. But are these dimensions vary from android standard dimensions? I mean, what are values of android API for this dimensions? – Kaidul Jul 13 '13 at 12:05
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You can find those dimensions in android sdk. It doesn't matter if dimensions are different, if your layouts look like you want and you follow android design patterns. – Koso Jul 13 '13 at 19:18

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