I'm trying to do some custom view styling and I'm having trouble correctly picking up styled attributes from the theme.
For instance, I would like to get the themes EditText's Text Colour.
Looking through the theme stack you can see my theme uses this to style it's EditText's:
<style name="Base.V7.Widget.AppCompat.EditText" parent="android:Widget.EditText">
<item name="android:background">?attr/editTextBackground</item>
<item name="android:textColor">?attr/editTextColor</item>
<item name="android:textAppearance">?android:attr/textAppearanceMediumInverse</item>
</style>
What I'm looking for, is how do I get that ?attr/editTextColor
(Aka, the value assigned by the theme to "android:editTextColor")
Searching through google, I have found enough of this answer:
TypedArray a = mView.getContext().getTheme().obtainStyledAttributes(R.style.editTextStyle, new int[] {R.attr.editTextColor});
int color = a.getResourceId(0, 0);
a.recycle();
But I'm pretty sure I must be doing this wrong as it always displays as black rather than grey?