applying theme to app or activity
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In the commonsware chapter on defining and using styles it mentions that themes can be applied to and entire activity or an entire application.  It doesn't show how but the android docs say to simply put the theme statement into the  androidmanifest.xml file like so....

	<application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
	    	>
	    <activity android:theme="@style/bigred"  . . . .
but it doesn't work.  only the application bar is styled with the big red type and the text in the widget is not styled at all.  How is this supposed to be done?

Also the docs say that to see what styles are available from android to read the code!!  any better docs than this?
Thanks,
Dean