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Cnorwood7641
Cnorwood7641

Reputation: 336

Android app background Colour Button

Hello again I have another question regarding my hello world app I want to change the background when A button is pressed so I did this:

    public void onclick01(View View)  
       {  
           View.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);

       }

But that changes the background colour of the button and not the whole app.

Edit

I have two more questions.

1) How would I set

View.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);

to something like:

View.setBackgroundColor(Color.RANDOM);

2) How would I do the same to change the text colour? something like:

View.setTextColor(Color.GREEN);?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2074

Answers (6)

MuraliGanesan
MuraliGanesan

Reputation: 3261

Use Selector you will get button press action.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
 <item android:drawable="@drawable/button_background" android:state_pressed="false"/>
 <!-- default -->
 <item android:drawable="@drawable/button_pressed" android:state_pressed="true"/>
 <!-- pressed -->
</selector>

Upvotes: 0

R9J
R9J

Reputation: 6715

You should have to use xml for this situation

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

<item android:state_pressed="true">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
       <solid android:color="yourColor"/>
    </shape>
</item>

<item>
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="yourColor"/>
    </shape>
</item>

</selector>

Upvotes: 0

Shiv
Shiv

Reputation: 4567

If you want to set through xml, then you need to do as below:

   android:background="@android:color/green"

in case if you decide to use android's default color code or if you have colors specified in colors.xml, then use

    android:background="@colors/green"

If you want to do programmatically, then do:

     LinearLayout linearlayout=(LinearLayout) findViewById(R.layout.yourlayout);
     linearlayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);

Upvotes: 0

androidgeek
androidgeek

Reputation: 3480

public void setActivityBackgroundColor(int color) {
 view = this.getWindow().getDecorView();
 view.setBackgroundColor(color);
}

Then call it from your OnClickListener passing in whatever color you want.

Upvotes: 0

duggu
duggu

Reputation: 38439

main_act.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/layout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/b1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="button" />

</LinearLayout>

activity

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
Button b1;
LinearLayout layout;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main_act);
    layout=(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.layout);
    blueButton=(Button)findViewById(R.id.b1);
    b1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        layout.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);

    }
});
}
}

Upvotes: 1

βhargavḯ
βhargavḯ

Reputation: 9836

Here View reference your Button's View. So you need to create object for parent layout an then

layout.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);

Upvotes: 0

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