I've perused ALL of the questions here and countless tutorials on Styling and Themes for Android. The odd hierarchy between Themes and Styles is still a mystery to me.
My Manifest calls out this "Style" (android:theme, "@style/rforderstyle") [this is formatted from the manifest editor in Basic4Android] (not my choice but its what I have to use.).. however the manifest is still accessible should I need to. I mention this because I've noticed that you can style a specific activity. I actually don't see a way to force have multiple "wigets" have their own "theme" while they all exist on the same activity.
Please advise if so then I my need to make my "little creations" as whatever "fragment" or "wigets". What I'm attempting is a windows mobile app type form with a ton of User controls on it..so this set at the bottom happens to use a mid sized black text font.. but the control over here in the right upper is a different text size and color on & On & on ...
So regarding the style xml file, I've read that,,, its important that,,,, my parent be some all encompassing Android theme and I override individual "properties" in this section::
Could that mean that although I'm concerned with text size, since I have labels and editcontrols present the absence of a "parent" style that addresses these will cause me an error as I attempt to use this referenced parent style ?? How does a theme get into this mix...?
<resources>
<style name="rforderstyle" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance">>
<item name="android:textSize"> 21.0dp</item>
<item name="android:typeface">serif</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#FF9900 </item><!--#00FF00-->
</style>
</resources>
This is oddly confusing because the best examples reference layout files for the views but I don't really have layout files in Basic4Android I'm programmatically creating all of these views. If I don't need the depth of theme and style then fine but ...is the manifest supposed to point to a Style or a theme?
