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Anthony
Anthony

Reputation: 109

Button pressed color, how can I use default whether on 4.4 or previous?

My understanding is that 4.4 changed some of the highlight colors for buttons to be grey or more neutral rather than blue. In my app I have some buttons which are a custom drawable - just a shape with rounded corners and then a selector for all the states. Now in my app so far I have just hard coded actual colors in this selector which are the same as from the default Holo theme on 4.0-4.3. However, with this recent change I want the pressed state of these buttons to be default (grey) when ran on 4.4+ devices. This way they will match the action bar highlights etc.

So far I have tried to use attribute 'colorPressedHighlight' in my selector but this doesn't work (I don't fully understand attributes/styles to be honest). The app wont compile, seemingly you can't refer to an attribute in place of a color.

Is there a way to do this? I'm now thinking maybe a different selector for each API version and just hard code the values in each? From a brief look I think this is possible, seems very inelegant though. This really shouldn't be as hard as it seems, right?

Any help much appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 358

Answers (1)

CoolMonster
CoolMonster

Reputation: 2266

res / values-v19

Create value folder for API level 19 i.e for android 4.4 and above.

res/values-v19/colors.xml

define custom color value for button selection color

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color
        name="button_selection"
        >hex_color(Gray)</color>
</resources>

Create value folder for API level below 19 i.e for below android 4.4

res/values/colors.xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <resources>
        <color
            name="button_selection"
            >hex_color(blue)</color>
    </resources>

Then use this value in your custom drawable.

Upvotes: 2

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