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Tony Bolero
Tony Bolero

Reputation: 291

How to change button colors on Android?

I'm a designer and about to do some light redesign of the standard components on Android. Right now I'm trying to figure out how button states works. According to Material Design guidelines the standard buttons, Floating action button, Raised and Flat buttons, have four states: Normal, Focus, Pressed and Disabled.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 196

Answers (2)

Rajen Raiyarela
Rajen Raiyarela

Reputation: 5636

No system does not take color by itself if you provide color for Normal State. For your second question, if you want to give shape then you can create a selector as specified by @Surace in drawable folder, but if you wish to only change color based on state then create a selector in

res/color

directory.

Rest of the things remain same, as you implement in selector created in drawable folder.

Upvotes: 1

Suresh A
Suresh A

Reputation: 1188

You can customize the button state color by using selector .

Suppose following is button_state_color.xml file in your drawable directory

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
    android:color="hex_color"
    android:state_pressed=["true" | "false"]
    android:state_focused=["true" | "false"]
    android:state_selected=["true" | "false"]
    android:state_checkable=["true" | "false"]
    android:state_checked=["true" | "false"]
    android:state_enabled=["true" | "false"]
    android:state_window_focused=["true" | "false"] />
</selector>

Use it in your button like this

<Button
 ...
 android:background="@drawable/button_state_color.xml"
...     
/>

Upvotes: 3

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