Apps crashing

[hybrid101]

Hello, i don't know where else to ask and i searched google for over 1 hour, came out empty.. Everytime i declare a custom made color in a colors.xml in a random app then i use it on a color already declared, after i apply the theme, the app always crashes. Now, i'm a noob when it comes to Substratum, played alot with CMTE back in the days, but this has got my head spinning. I tried several apps (dialer,settings,file manager), always the same result.

My colors.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="dialer_theme_color">@color/mycolors</color>
    <color name="mycolors">#ffff0000</color>
</resources>

It only crashes if i set @color/mycolors. If i just change the original color, it's working fine. Why can't i put my own colors in apps? What am i doing wrong? (This worked fine in CMTE)

Btw, i'm on a RR rom.

[Adarsh-MR]

its because you cant add new resource "mycolor", you have to use resources which is already available in apk, you can just use hex instead referencing it to another resource.

[hybrid101]

But some things in styles.xml, for example can't use hex code and it's not only on colors. I can't even add a new drawable xml file (a solid color). Basically, i can't add anything custom made in an app, though this worked fine in CMTE. There has to be something i'm not seeing or doing.

Let's say i wanna make my background half red transparent. If i add a half_red_transparent.xml in drawables and set it there, then if i reference it somewhere in my styles.xml, the app crashes.

[msfjarvis]

CMTE allowed adding new resources, OMS does not. Any theming related queries you have do not belong here, you can ask them in the G+ community or in the Telegram chat. I'm closing and locking this issue.