Android: set view style programmatically

For a new Button/TextView:

Button mMyButton = new Button(new ContextThemeWrapper(this, R.style.button_disabled), null, 0);

For an existing instance:

mMyButton.setTextAppearance(this, R.style.button_enabled);

For Image or layouts:

Image mMyImage = new ImageView(new ContextThemeWrapper(context, R.style.article_image), null, 0);

This is quite old question but solution that worked for me now is to use 4th parameter of constructor defStyleRes - if available.. on view... to set style

Following works for my purposes (kotlin):

val textView = TextView(context, null, 0, R.style.Headline1)

This is my simple example, the key is the ContextThemeWrapper wrapper, without it, my style does not work, and using the three parameters constructor of the View.

ContextThemeWrapper themeContext = new ContextThemeWrapper(this, R.style.DefaultLabelStyle);
TextView tv = new TextView(themeContext, null, 0);
tv.setText("blah blah ...");
layout.addView(tv);

the simple way is passing through constructor

RadioButton radioButton = new RadioButton(this,null,R.style.radiobutton_material_quiz);

I don't propose to use ContextThemeWrapper as it do this:

The specified theme will be applied on top of the base context's theme.

What can make unwanted results in your application. Instead I propose new library "paris" for this from engineers at Airbnb:

https://github.com/airbnb/paris

Define and apply styles to Android views programmatically.

But after some time of using it I found out it's actually quite limited and I stopped using it because it does not support a lot of properties i need out off the box, so one have to check out and decide as always.

int buttonStyle = R.style.your_button_style;
Button button = new Button(new ContextThemeWrapper(context, buttonStyle), null, buttonStyle);

Only this answer works for me. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/24438579/5093308

best simple solution i found, using alertDialog with a custom layout, is :

val mView = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(layoutResId, null)

val dialog = AlertDialog.Builder(context, R.style.CustomAlertDialog)
    .setView(mView)
    .setCancelable(false)
    .create()

where style is

<style name="CustomAlertDialog" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/bg_dialog_white_rounded</item>
</style>

and bg_dialog_white_rounded.xml is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <corners android:radius="16dp" />

    <solid android:color="@Color/white" />
</shape>

layoutResId is a resource id of any layout that has to have the theme set to "@style/CustomAlertDialog", for example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/root"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/wdd_margin_medium"
    android:theme="@style/CustomAlertDialog"
    android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/wdd_margin_medium">

..... etc...
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

if inside own custom view : val editText = TextInputEditText(context, attrs, defStyleAttr)