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Reputation:

Changing style works only partially: text color changes, background doesn't

I'm trying to change the style of a Button when someone clicks on it. I want to change both the background as the text colour. However, only the text color is changed. From that I conclude that the style is changed, but for some reason the background can't be overwritten.

I'm using this code in the onClick handler:

Button send_button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
send_button.setTextAppearance(context, R.style.activeButtonTheme);

The relevant styles in my styles.xml are:

<style name="buttonTheme">
    <item name="android:background">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/orange</item>
    <item name="android:paddingTop">6dp</item>
    <item name="android:paddingBottom">6dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_margin">2dp</item>
</style>

<style name="activeButtonTheme" parent="@style/buttonTheme">
    <item name="android:background">@color/orange</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item>
</style>

What's the problem here?

I do not want to set the background color from Java, I only want to change the style in Java.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 337

Answers (1)

Eugene
Eugene

Reputation: 530

Use selector for that purpose. Check this link for details(Custom background section) Regarding to your code, define appropriate selector.xml file in your resources directory, something like that:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/drawable_for_dissabled_button" android:state_enabled="false"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/drawable_for_pressed_button" android:state_enabled="true" android:state_pressed="true"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/drawable_for_enabled_button" android:state_enabled="true" android:state_focused="true"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/drawable_for_enabled_button" android:state_enabled="true"/>
</selector>

Assign just created selector to the button in the layout file:

<Button android:id="@+id/your_button_id"
    android:background="@drawable/selector" />

Upvotes: 1

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