Android: set view style programmatically

Issue

Here's XML:

<RelativeLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    style="@style/LightStyle"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="55dip"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="horizontal" />

</RelativeLayout>

How to set style attribute programmatically?

Solution

Technically you can apply styles programmatically, with custom views anyway:

private MyRelativeLayout extends RelativeLayout {
  public MyRelativeLayout(Context context) {
     super(context, null, R.style.LightStyle);
  }
}

The one argument constructor is the one used when you instantiate views programmatically.

So chain this constructor to the super that takes a style parameter.

RelativeLayout someLayout = new MyRelativeLayout(new ContextThemeWrapper(this,R.style.RadioButton));

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Or as @Dori pointed out simply:

RelativeLayout someLayout = new RelativeLayout(new ContextThemeWrapper(activity,R.style.LightStyle));

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Now in Kotlin:

class MyRelativeLayout @JvmOverloads constructor(
    context: Context, 
    attributeSet: AttributeSet? = null, 
    defStyleAttr: Int = R.style.LightStyle,
) : RelativeLayout(context, attributeSet, defStyleAttr)

or

 val rl = RelativeLayout(ContextThemeWrapper(activity, R.style.LightStyle))

Answered By - Blundell