Material-components-android: Support using components in service

Created on 21 Feb 2020 · 5Comments · Source: material-components/material-components-android

I want to use components in service when using WindowManager.addView but this is impossible now. Because components only use with Material theme.

Thanks!

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kimcy929

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Thank you! It worked fine!

val contextThemeWrapper = ContextThemeWrapper(this, R.style.Theme_MaterialComponents)
val inflater = LayoutInflater.from(contextThemeWrapper)

kimcy929 on 22 Feb 2020

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Can you wrap the context you use to create the views in a ContextThemeWrapper with one of our
themes?

new ContextThemeWrapper(context, R.style.Theme_MaterialComponents)

ymarian on 21 Feb 2020

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Thank you! It worked fine!

val contextThemeWrapper = ContextThemeWrapper(this, R.style.Theme_MaterialComponents)
val inflater = LayoutInflater.from(contextThemeWrapper)

kimcy929 on 22 Feb 2020

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No problem! We do always want to use Themes. Since our components read attributes from there.

ymarian on 24 Feb 2020

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I found the useful article about usage ContextThemeWrapper

https://ataulm.github.io/2019/11/20/using-context-theme-wrapper.html

kimcy929 on 24 Feb 2020

I'm trying to do this for an soft input (the service is an InputMethodService). The ContextThemeWrapper seems to be working, but only on some devices the background scrim is added. Do you have any clue why that is or what I could check to figure out what I'm doing wrong?