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MilesDyson
MilesDyson

Reputation: 778

Change button background to clicked

When you press on a button in Android it changes color. I want it to stay like that. I mean i want something like this:

Button btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button_id);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
         public void onClick(View v) {
             btn.setBackGroundColor(R.drawable.clicked /*clicked style*/ );
         }
     });

example:

enter image description here

This is a pressed on button. I want it to stay like that after i stop pressing it. Is there a easy way like that:

android.R.drawable.btn_default //this is the default button style, i want the pressed one :D

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1780

Answers (5)

npace
npace

Reputation: 4258

So you want it to start non-pressed and then stay pressed after being clicked one? Try using an OnTouchListener instead adding btn.setPressed(true);:

public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event)
        {
            if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN)
            {
                btn.setPressed(true);
            }
            return true;
        }

Upvotes: 1

Sunil Kumar
Sunil Kumar

Reputation: 7092

You can try this way either put image as dark when press or color

drawable/selector.xml

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

inside on-create method write

btn.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.selector);

Upvotes: 0

Rishabh Srivastava
Rishabh Srivastava

Reputation: 3745

Try using selector:

Define selector.xml in drawable folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
        <item android:drawable="@drawable/button_pressed_yellow"
              android:state_pressed="true" />
        <item android:drawable="@drawable/button_normal_green" />
    </selector>

and set background of the button to android:background="@drawable/selector" then in the code on the click event of the button set btn.setpressed(true);

Upvotes: 1

Aracem
Aracem

Reputation: 7207

Take a look of the StateSelector images

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#StateList

You can set diferent resources for the diferent states of your button/view. This example set different colors: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">    
    <item android:drawable="@color/branded_content_pressed_color" android:state_enabled="true" android:state_pressed="true"/>
    <item android:drawable="@color/branded_content_pressed_color" android:state_enabled="true" android:state_focused="true"/>
    <item android:drawable="@color/branded_content_background_color"/>
</selector>

Then you can set the selector normally 

button.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.selector);

Upvotes: 0

Vikram Singh
Vikram Singh

Reputation: 1420

In your java code write button.setPressed(true);.It will set button in pressed mode. You can change the parameter to true and false when you want to set it pressed and unpressed...

Upvotes: 1

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