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How to customize build-in widgets in Android (menu, notification, spinners etc.)?

Hi I want to customize colour palette in Android widgets.

Orange colour is good but it can be done better.

Things which I want to do: - override colours in menu after press and focus - override colours in ongoing notification bar - override colour in EditText frame and finally - override spinner focus and press colour

I want to use build-in method forcing Android do build menu and passing it for me.

As a last resort I may build it from scratch, but this is less welcome, from obvious reasons :-).

thanks in advance, Patrick

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I think You're looking for themes. You can set menu colors etc. throughout Your entire application.

Henning  2009-11-04 15:51:06
Exactly what I need thanks you ^^! You saved my day.
Patrick  2009-11-05 15:06:33
If I can ask you for revision. I still have a problem with this section. I followed guidelines, so I declared style with following parameter:<item name="android:drawable/menuitem_background_pressed">@drawable/menuitem_background_pressed_appName</item><item name="android:drawable/menuitem_background_focus">@drawable/menuitem_background_focus_appName</item>The objects under appName follows the same pattern like in android resource files.
Patrick  2009-11-12 10:36:38
There not too much space.In console I recieve following info:[2009-11-12 11:26:20 - appName]W/ResourceType( 8022): Skipping entry 0x10801b7 in package table 0 because it is not complex![2009-11-12 11:26:20 - appName]WARNING: Type not found for resource #010801b7I have no clue what to do next :-/.
Patrick  2009-11-12 10:37:31

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