Definition of style, color, etc. In XML?

Question

I use a fairly simple drawing in the application I'm working on, and wonder about the “right” way to handle Paint attributes such as color, etc. With lines, styles, menus, layouts, etc., separated from the application logic and defined in XML, I was wondering how (if possible) to define the "Paint" style in XML in much the same way.

I performed a series of searches and came up empty, which may be the answer, but I wondered about other approaches than, say:

mPaint = new Paint(); mPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE); mPaint.setColor(0x80808080); 

Thanks,

Floor

Answer 1

As far as I know, there is no way to define the drawing style in the XML resource file of Android. However, you can define the necessary values ​​(integers, colors, etc.) in the XML resource and then manually load them into the Paint object. It is still hard-coded, but at least you can define colors, etc. In your resource file once and use them in different places later. :-)