Google release Android appmakers manufacturer-skin ignore

Devices running version 4.0 of Android may make their own skin, but must always also the default theme-the elements of the operating system. So can such as: choose the style of their app.

Writes Google developer Andrew Powell on the Android developmentblog. On Android, it often occurs that manufacturers the default style is replaced by an own design. Examples include the TouchWiz skin of Samsung and Sense of HTC. Until now you had that as a result of the application on phones else could see, because elements such as buttons and input fields, the style of the new skin got.

By the change that Google is now performed, there may be different styles can exist alongside each other. Any device running Android 4.0 should be next to the ‘default’theme, by manufacturers could be adjusted to the Holo theme of Ice Cream Sandwich. Application developers can specify whether they are standard or Holo-theme want to use, allowing them to have more impact on the appearance of their application.

The obligation does not mean that phone – and tabletfabrikanten not own skins and interfaces more may develop. It must just be easier to have skins to make, because this now can be added in place of current system files on to write. It does not seem likely that the new feature makes it possible to switch between skins; it is only for app-builders intended.