Select the “Blank Activity” option and press Next. We will use the default icon of android, so click Next. In “Configure Launcher Icon” window you should choose the icon you want to have in your app. The new created activity will be the main activity of your project. In the next window, the “Create Activity” option should be checked. Specify the name of the application, the project and the package and then press Next button. Open Eclipse IDE and go to File → New → Project → Android Application Project.

In our example we will find out how to create and set our own styles and how to define a theme to our entire application.įor this tutorial, we will use the following tools in a Windows 64-bit platform:ġ. Theme is nothing more than a style that applies to the whole app or a certain Activity.

It isn’t wrong to say that a style is the Android’s css, because it separates the design from the content.

This is happening via a Style, which is a XML resource and it is separate from XML layouts. Android gives us the opportunity to specify the format and the design of View components or screens of our app, by declaring some characteristics such as color, margin, text size etc.

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