[mono-android] set theme/style programmatically

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Tomasz Cielecki wrote:
> Yes, in your activity where you set Label and other parameters for it, you can set the theme.
...
>    [Activity(Theme = "@style/Theme.MyAwesomeTheme", Label = "@string/MyAwesomeActivity")]

That's not programmatically, that's declaratively, as that winds up in AndroidManifest.xml setting the //activity/android:theme attribute. :-)

To programmatically set the theme, use Context.SetTheme(int):

	http://androidapi.xamarin.com/index.aspx?link=M%3aAndroid.Content.Context.SetTheme(System.Int32)
	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4967904/androidhow-to-programmatically-set-an-activitys-theme-to-theme-dialog

It also sounds like SetTheme() needs to be invoked before calling base.OnCreate().

 - Jon