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user3605220
user3605220

Reputation:

How to create a floating action button (FAB) in android, using AppCompat v21?

I would like to create a floating action button (to add items to a listview), like google calendar, maintaining compatibility with pre-lollipop Android versions (before 5.0).

I created this layout:

Activity main_activity.xml:

<LinearLayout ... >

     <include
         layout="@layout/toolbar"/>

     <RelativeLayout ... >

     <!-- My rest of the layout -->

          <!-- Floating action button -->
          <ImageButton style="@style/AppTheme"
                     android:layout_width="60dp"
                     android:layout_height="60dp"
                     android:text="New Button"
                     android:id="@+id/button"
                     android:src="@drawable/ic_fab"
                     android:background="@drawable/fab"
                     android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
                     android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                     android:layout_marginBottom="24dp"
                     android:layout_marginRight="24dp"/>

     </RelativeLayout>

 </LinearLayout>

Drawable fab.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
       android:shape="oval">
    <solid android:color="#ffa48bc0"/>
</shape>

Style styles.xml

<resources>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="colorPrimary">#ff1d79b1</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#ff084d95</item>
    </style>
</resources>

The result is similar, but there isn't the shading, a characteristic of material design:

Calendar's floating action button:

Calendar's floating action button

My app's floating action button:

My app's floating action button

How can I add the shading to my button?

I have already used the attribute elevation, but does not work

Upvotes: 79

Views: 122460

Answers (7)

Vladyslav Baidak
Vladyslav Baidak

Reputation: 338

Here is one aditional free Floating Action Button library for Android It has many customizations and requires SDK version 9 and higher

enter image description here

Full Demo Video

Upvotes: 8

user1354603
user1354603

Reputation: 4034

There is no longer a need for creating your own FAB nor using a third party library, it was included in AppCompat 22.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/FloatingActionButton.html

Just add the new support library called design in in your gradle-file:

compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.0'

...and you are good to go:

<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom"
        android:layout_margin="16dp"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_happy_image" />

Upvotes: 100

Amilcar Andrade
Amilcar Andrade

Reputation: 1171

@Justin Pollard xml code works really good. As a side note you can add a ripple effect with the following xml lines.

    <item>
    <ripple
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:color="?android:colorControlHighlight" >
        <item android:id="@android:id/mask">
            <shape android:shape="oval" >
                <solid android:color="#FFBB00" />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval" >
                <solid android:color="@color/ColorPrimary" />
            </shape>
        </item>
    </ripple>
</item>

Upvotes: 4

Justin Pollard
Justin Pollard

Reputation: 6679

I've generally used xml drawables to create shadow/elevation on a pre-lollipop widget. Here, for example, is an xml drawable that can be used on pre-lollipop devices to simulate the floating action button's elevation.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:top="8px">
    <layer-list>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval">
                <solid android:color="#08000000"/>
                <padding
                    android:bottom="3px"
                    android:left="3px"
                    android:right="3px"
                    android:top="3px"
                    />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval">
                <solid android:color="#09000000"/>
                <padding
                    android:bottom="2px"
                    android:left="2px"
                    android:right="2px"
                    android:top="2px"
                    />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval">
                <solid android:color="#10000000"/>
                <padding
                    android:bottom="2px"
                    android:left="2px"
                    android:right="2px"
                    android:top="2px"
                    />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval">
                <solid android:color="#11000000"/>
                <padding
                    android:bottom="1px"
                    android:left="1px"
                    android:right="1px"
                    android:top="1px"
                    />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval">
                <solid android:color="#12000000"/>
                <padding
                    android:bottom="1px"
                    android:left="1px"
                    android:right="1px"
                    android:top="1px"
                    />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval">
                <solid android:color="#13000000"/>
                <padding
                    android:bottom="1px"
                    android:left="1px"
                    android:right="1px"
                    android:top="1px"
                    />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval">
                <solid android:color="#14000000"/>
                <padding
                    android:bottom="1px"
                    android:left="1px"
                    android:right="1px"
                    android:top="1px"
                    />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval">
                <solid android:color="#15000000"/>
                <padding
                    android:bottom="1px"
                    android:left="1px"
                    android:right="1px"
                    android:top="1px"
                    />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval">
                <solid android:color="#16000000"/>
                <padding
                    android:bottom="1px"
                    android:left="1px"
                    android:right="1px"
                    android:top="1px"
                    />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>
            <shape android:shape="oval">
                <solid android:color="#17000000"/>
                <padding
                    android:bottom="1px"
                    android:left="1px"
                    android:right="1px"
                    android:top="1px"
                    />
            </shape>
        </item>
    </layer-list>
</item>
<item>
    <shape android:shape="oval">
        <solid android:color="?attr/colorPrimary"/>
    </shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

In place of ?attr/colorPrimary you can choose any color. Here's a screenshot of the result:

enter image description here

Upvotes: 42

QAMAR
QAMAR

Reputation: 2694

There are a bunch of libraries out there add a FAB(Floating Action Button) in your app, Here are few of them i Know.

makovkastar's FAB

futuersimple's Composite FAB

Material Design library which includes FAB too

All these libraries are supported on pre-lollipop devices, minimum to api 8

Upvotes: 19

Oleksii K.
Oleksii K.

Reputation: 5419

Try this library, it supports shadow, there is minSdkVersion=7 and also supports android:elevation attribute for API-21 implicitly.

Original post is here.

Upvotes: 2

Simas
Simas

Reputation: 44148

Add padding and elevation:

 android:elevation="10dp"
 android:padding="10dp"

Upvotes: 1

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