Android Themes and Styles Demystified

Dive deep into the intricacies of Android themes and styles in this 37-minute Google I/O 2016 talk. Explore the fundamental concepts of UI styling in Android, including the relationship between themes and styles, the nature of attributes, and techniques for creating more manageable styles. Learn about attribute format types, namespaces, custom attributes, and the global namespace. Discover how styles can reference values from themes, and understand the concept of overlay themes. Examine text appearances, widget styles, theme colors, and drawables. Gain insights into view tinting, the night qualifier, and backwards compatibility. Uncover the differences between defStyleAttr and defStyleRes, and explore how view attributes work within themes. Master the art of Android UI styling to create more polished and efficient app designs.