Skinning overview

An ADF skin is a collection of files that together define the look and feel of the application. To a hunter, skinning is the process of removing the skin from an animal, but to an ADF developer it's the process of putting a skin onto an application.

All applications have a skin—if you don't change it, an application built with JDeveloper 12c uses some variation of the skyros skin.

When you define a custom skin, you must also choose a parent skin among the skins JDeveloper offers. This parent skin will define the look for all the components not explicitly defined in your skin.

Skinning capabilities

As you saw earlier in this chapter, there are a few options to change the style of the individual components through their properties. ...

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