Styles and Themes in Android Course

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Free Online Course: Styles and Themes in Android Course provided by Treehouse is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for Less than 1 hour of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge.

Overview
  • Styles and themes are used to create a consistent user interface throughout an app, in a way that allows for reuse, easy maintenance, and compatibility on older versions of Android.

    What you'll learn

    • Styles
    • Themes
    • AppCompat

Syllabus
  • Using Styles in Layouts

    Styles in Android are used to create reusable UI customizations for views in layouts. Defined in one place, styles make buttons, text fields, or other widgets look the same.

    Chevron 7 steps
    • Defining the Problem

      3:40

    • Creating a Style

      2:37

    • Creating a Style

      3 objectives

    • Including One Layout in Another

      0:57

    • Using Includes for Repeatable Layouts

      3 questions

    • Styling More Views

      4:38

    • Styling EditTexts and Buttons

      3 objectives

    Themes and Compatibility

    Themes are collections of styles that can be applied to an app to create consistency across different layouts and versions of Android.

    Chevron 8 steps
    • Introducing Themes

      1:28

    • Creating a Theme

      2:24

    • Creating a Theme

      2 objectives

    • AppCompat and Themes

      4:29

    • Fixing Compatibility Issues

      3:08

    • Using AppCompatActivity

      6:37

    • Review: Styles and Themes

      4 questions

    • Final Thoughts

      0:28