I'm writing a few custom views which share some same-named attributes. In their respective <declare-styleable>
section in attrs.xml
I'd like to use the same names for attributes:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<declare-styleable name="MyView1">
<attr name="myattr1" format="string" />
<attr name="myattr2" format="dimension" />
...
</declare-styleable>
<declare-styleable name="MyView2">
<attr name="myattr1" format="string" />
<attr name="myattr2" format="dimension" />
...
</declare-styleable>
</resources>
I'm getting an error saying that myattr1
and myattr2
are already defined. I found that I should omit the format
attribute for myattr1
and myattr2
in MyView2
, but if I do that, I obtain the following error in the console:
[2010-12-13 23:53:11 - MyProject] ERROR: In <declare-styleable> MyView2, unable to find attribute
Is there a way I could accomplish this, maybe some sort of namespacing (just guessing)?
Solution: Simply extract common attributes from both views and add them directly as children of the <resources>
node:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<attr name="myattr1" format="string" />
<attr name="myattr2" format="dimension" />
<declare-styleable name="MyView1">
<attr name="myattr1" />
<attr name="myattr2" />
...
</declare-styleable>
<declare-styleable name="MyView2">
<attr name="myattr1" />
<attr name="myattr2" />
...
</declare-styleable>
</resources>