Help with a Custom View Attributes Inside a Android Library Project

how to use custom attributes that a library has?

Depends how you declare the namespace.
In your case you have declared:

xmlns:widget="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

that means you can call the attributes using widget as prefix:

widget:progress_reached_bar_height="5dp"

If you want to use the custom prefix change the declaration in this way:

xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

Custom View attributes are not accessible in xml android

The proper format for drawable resources is reference, no integer. Change your attribute definitions to something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <declare-styleable name="VolumnBar">
        <attr name="disableProgressRes" format="reference" />
        <attr name="enableProgressRes" format="reference" />
    </declare-styleable>
</resources>

Create Custom Compound View in Android with Attributes

If we add new compound view code and its attributesinside project, we should add this at the beginning of layout:

xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/your_main_app_package

and if new compound view is inside a library project linked to our peoject, we should add this:

xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto

Link: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10217752/1152549

android custom view attributes not working after switch to gradle

Can't really see what's wrong in your project. Here is how I use custom view & attrs in mine :

In my library project :

attrs.xml :

<declare-styleable name="CustomFontSize">
    <attr name="typeFace" format="string" />
</declare-styleable>

in my custom class :

 TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.CustomFontSize);
 if (a == null) {
      return;
 }
 CharSequence s = a.getString(R.styleable.CustomFontSize_typeFace);
 if (s != null) {
    // do something
 }

In my Main Project here an example of one of my layout :

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:orientation="vertical"
              android:paddingLeft="@dimen/border_margin_pulltorefresh"
              android:paddingRight="@dimen/border_margin_pulltorefresh"
              android:paddingBottom="@dimen/divider_height">

    <com.custom.view.TextViewFont
            style="@style/DateStyle"
            android:id="@+id/news_date"
            android:shadowColor="@color/white"
            android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            custom:typeFace="@string/font_roboto_condensed_bold"/>

</LinearLayout>

Hope it will help ...

Edit :

in my build.gradle of my "main project"

dependencies {
    compile project(":MyLibraryProject")
}

And here the build.gradle of my library :

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.7.+'
    }
}
apply plugin: 'android-library'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:19.0.0'
    compile 'com.actionbarsherlock:actionbarsherlock:4.4.0@aar'
    compile project(':WebediaCore:dependencies:DataDroid')
    compile project(':WebediaCore:dependencies:ViewPagerIndicator')
    compile project(':WebediaCore:dependencies:ActionBar-PullToRefresh')
    compile project(':WebediaCore:dependencies:Android-Universal-Image-Loader')
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 19
    buildToolsVersion '19'

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 8
        targetSdkVersion 19
    }
}

EDIT1 :

Try to use this namespace :

xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

and replace :

 iconview:icon_name="entypo_search"

by :

 custom:name="entypo_search"

Defining custom attrs

Currently the best documentation is the source. You can take a look at it here (attrs.xml).

You can define attributes in the top <resources> element or inside of a <declare-styleable> element. If I'm going to use an attr in more than one place I put it in the root element. Note, all attributes share the same global namespace. That means that even if you create a new attribute inside of a <declare-styleable> element it can be used outside of it and you cannot create another attribute with the same name of a different type.

An <attr> element has two xml attributes name and format. name lets you call it something and this is how you end up referring to it in code, e.g., R.attr.my_attribute. The format attribute can have different values depending on the 'type' of attribute you want.

• reference - if it references another resource id (e.g, "@color/my_color", "@layout/my_layout")
• color
• boolean
• dimension
• float
• integer
• string
• fraction
• enum - normally implicitly defined
• flag - normally implicitly defined

You can set the format to multiple types by using |, e.g., format="reference|color".

enum attributes can be defined as follows:

<attr name="my_enum_attr">
  <enum name="value1" value="1" />
  <enum name="value2" value="2" />
</attr>

flag attributes are similar except the values need to be defined so they can be bit ored together:

<attr name="my_flag_attr">
  <flag name="fuzzy" value="0x01" />
  <flag name="cold" value="0x02" />
</attr>

In addition to attributes there is the <declare-styleable> element. This allows you to define attributes a custom view can use. You do this by specifying an <attr> element, if it was previously defined you do not specify the format. If you wish to reuse an android attr, for example, android:gravity, then you can do that in the name, as follows.

An example of a custom view <declare-styleable>:

<declare-styleable name="MyCustomView">
  <attr name="my_custom_attribute" />
  <attr name="android:gravity" />
</declare-styleable>

When defining your custom attributes in XML on your custom view you need to do a few things. First you must declare a namespace to find your attributes. You do this on the root layout element. Normally there is only xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android". You must now also add xmlns:whatever="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto".

Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  xmlns:whatever="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent">

    <org.example.mypackage.MyCustomView
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:gravity="center"
      whatever:my_custom_attribute="Hello, world!" />
</LinearLayout>

Finally, to access that custom attribute you normally do so in the constructor of your custom view as follows.

public MyCustomView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
  super(context, attrs, defStyle);

  TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.MyCustomView, defStyle, 0);

  String str = a.getString(R.styleable.MyCustomView_my_custom_attribute);

  //do something with str

  a.recycle();
}

The end. :)

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