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Drake
Drake

Reputation: 2703

Change background color of a view without removing drawable

I have a view with a drawable set on it:

<View
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@drawable/my_drawable" />

my_drawable changes the way the View looks when it is clicked/pressed, but does not set its background color. I want to set its background color in the code:

view.setBackgroundColor(myColor);

But this removes my_drawable from it. How can I change the background color without removing my_drawable?

EDIT

This is my_drawable:

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

This is button_round_corner_pressed_shape:

<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:shape="rectangle">

  <stroke android:width="@dimen/button_pressed_stroke_width"
      android:color="@color/colorAccent" />

  <corners android:radius="@dimen/button_corner_radius" />

</shape>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1118

Answers (6)

Drake
Drake

Reputation: 2703

This finally worked for me:

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/view_background"
    android:layout_width="@dimen/width"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/height"
    android:src="@xml/button_round_corner_default_shape" />

<View
    android:layout_width="@dimen/width"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/height"
    android:background="@xml/my_drawable" />

And in the code:

viewBackground = findViewById<ImageView>(Resource.Id.view_background);
viewBackground.setColorFilter(color);

I combined pieces of everyone's answer to do this.

Upvotes: 0

Gene M
Gene M

Reputation: 408

But this removes my_drawable from it. How can I change the background color without removing my_drawable?

You want to change the background color by not removing the my_drawable? That seems confusing my friend. Why would you change the background color if you don't want to remove the drawable?

Which background color do you really want to be changed?

You can also just change the drawable to a new one..

The property android:background actually accepts a few types. You can try a drawable and a color.

You can also programmatically change this by using view.setBackgroundColor(color) for color, and view.setBackground(drawable) for background drawable.

References

Upvotes: 0

Patrick R
Patrick R

Reputation: 6857

You can use ImageView and set your drawable as below code:

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@drawable/green_circle" />

Then you can change color of your drawable at run time without changing your drawable:

ImageView view=(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.view);
view.setColorFilter(Color.RED);

Upvotes: 1

SpiritCrusher
SpiritCrusher

Reputation: 21043

Use CheckedText view with selector for checked , unchecked stated . Onclick just toggle the checked state .

checkedTxt.setChecked(true).

Upvotes: 0

ANUJ GUPTA
ANUJ GUPTA

Reputation: 925

One solution is to overlap the view with an ImageView so that you can set the background colour in the view and set the drawable in the ImageView.

Upvotes: 1

Marcos Vasconcelos
Marcos Vasconcelos

Reputation: 18276

Use a ImageView with the drawable as android:src and change the background as you wish.

Upvotes: 1

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