How can I debug Android style inheritance issue?

Question

When doing web development, you can check the element and see which classes provide the css rules. Is there an equivalent for Android development?

TL; DR; Here is an example of a style inheritance problem that I solved and solved:

I had a Holo theme dialog box, but the text color was dark even when I tried to set the text color to white.

This dialog box:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <ListView android:id="@android:id/list" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" style="@style/Theme.Dialog"/> </RelativeLayout> 

In the style.xml resource:

 <style name="Theme.Dialog" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Dialog"> <item name="android:windowTitleStyle">@android:style/TextAppearance.Large</item> <item name="android:textColor">@color/solid_white</item> <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item> </style> 

It turned out that I used Fragment , whose Activity was ListActivity , and it defined getView, which created a view from the xml style, which set the text color to dark. It would be interesting to see what sets the color of the text.

Answer 1

I agree with the comments on your question, but for the future, if you want to get an idea of ​​the hierarchy of views (rather than styles) for your application, you can do this in Eclipse.

Launch the app. Window> Open Perspective> DDMS. In the DDMS area, click the icon on the left that looks like a stack of phones (next to the camera icon).

You can navigate the screen and visually display the hierarchy of views.

May help in some way.