The Android Developer Guide has a section called Building Custom Components. Unfortunately, the discussion of XML attributes only covers declaring the control inside the layout file and not actually handling the values inside the class initialisation. The steps are as follows: 1. Declare attributes in values\attrs.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <declare-styleable name="MyCu
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