Android creating themes and styles

Question

I would like to define a theme for my first Android app. I use Eclipse and I follow this tutorial but have problems.

Steps:

A. I create the values/styles.xml file with content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
  <style name="default_splashScreen">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/bg</item>
  </style>
</resources>

B. I create the values/themes.xml file with content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
  <style name="Theme" parent="android:Theme">
    <item name="SplashScreen">@style/default_splashScreen</item>
  </style>
</resources>

Now Eclipse always complains about the item name="SplashScreen" node with the message "No resource found...". I just want SplashScreen to call default_splashScreen style.

What is wrong? Thx!

Answer 1

Is Eclipse only complaining in the text editor or also when you actually try to compile and run the app? Maybe Eclipse doesn't update the project correctly - try one of the following:

• have you set your project to 'Build automatically'?
• tried a manual project refresh? (right click on project / refresh)
• clean the project via Menu > Project Clean Project...
• finally: restart Eclipse

Answer 2

Aha: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2268039/how-do-i-create-my-own-resource-names