Android change button text and background color

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How can I change both text and background colors when my button is pressed  with xml   To change text color I can do    lt selector xmlns android  quot http   schemas android com apk res android quot  gt       lt item android state pressed  quot true quot  android color  quot mycolor quot   gt       lt item android color  quot mycolor2  gt   lt  selector gt   To change the background I can do  using it in a selector item with drawable reference     lt shape xmlns android  quot http   schemas android com apk res android quot  gt       lt solid android color  quot  FF0079FF quot    gt   lt  shape gt   But how can I do both   Let s say I want to have    Default   black text   white background Pressed   white text   blue background  EDIT   answer I totaly forgot that the background and text color are managed separately  so this is how I did it    lt Button     android textColor  quot  color filtersbuttoncolors quot      android background  quot  drawable mybackgroundcolors quot    gt   In mybackgroundcolors xml I manage the background and in filtersbuttoncolors xml I manage the text color  In both xml files I manage the status  pressed  selected  default

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Here is an example of a drawable that will be white by default  black when pressed    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt selector xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt       lt item android state pressed  true  gt           lt shape gt               lt solid                 android color   1E669B   gt               lt stroke                 android width  2dp                  android color   1B5E91   gt               lt corners                 android radius  6dp   gt               lt padding                 android bottom  10dp                  android left  10dp                  android right  10dp                  android top  10dp   gt           lt  shape gt        lt  item gt       lt item gt           lt shape gt               lt gradient                 android angle  270                  android endColor   1E669B                  android startColor   1E669B   gt               lt stroke                 android width  4dp                  android color   1B5E91   gt               lt corners                 android radius  7dp   gt               lt padding                 android bottom  10dp                  android left  10dp                  android right  10dp                  android top  10dp   gt           lt  shape gt       lt  item gt   lt  selector gt

User · Answer

Just complementing  Jonsmoke s answer   For API level 21 and above you can use    android backgroundTint   android color white    in XML for the button layout   For API level below 21 use an AppCompatButton using app namespace instead of android for backgroundTint   For example    lt android support v7 widget AppCompatButton     android id    id my button      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android text  My Button      app backgroundTint   android color white    gt

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Just use a MaterialButton and the app backgroundTint and android textColor attributes   lt MaterialButton   app backgroundTint  quot  color my color quot    android textColor  quot  android color white quot   gt

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When you create an App  a file called styles xml will be created in your res values folder  If you change the styles  you can change the background  text color  etc for all your layouts  That way you don   t have to go into each individual layout and change the it manually   styles xml         lt resources xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt   lt style name  Theme AppBaseTheme  parent   android style Theme Light  gt       lt item name  android editTextColor  gt  295055 lt  item gt        lt item name  android textColorPrimary  gt  295055 lt  item gt       lt item name  android textColorSecondary  gt  295055 lt  item gt       lt item name  android textColorTertiary  gt  295055 lt  item gt       lt item name  android textColorPrimaryInverse  gt  295055 lt  item gt       lt item name  android textColorSecondaryInverse  gt  295055 lt  item gt       lt item name  android textColorTertiaryInverse  gt  295055 lt  item gt         lt item name  android windowBackground  gt  drawable custom background lt  item gt           lt  style gt    lt  -- Application theme  -- gt   lt style name  AppTheme  parent  AppBaseTheme  gt       lt  -- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here  -- gt   lt  style gt      parent   android style Theme Light  is Google   s native colors  Here is a reference of what the native styles are  https   android googlesource com platform frameworks base   refs heads master core res res values themes xml  name  Theme AppBaseTheme  means that you are creating a style that inherits all the styles from parent   android style Theme Light   This part you can ignore unless you want to inherit from AppBaseTheme again         lt style name  AppTheme  parent  AppBaseTheme  gt    drawable custom background is a custom image I put in the drawable   s folder  It is a 300x300 png image    295055 is a dark blue color   My code changes the background and text color  For Button text  please look through Google   s native stlyes  the link I gave u above     Then in Android Manifest  remember to include the code      lt application android theme   style Theme AppBaseTheme  gt

User · Answer

add below line in styles xml   lt style name  AppTheme Gray  parent  Theme AppCompat Light DarkActionBar  gt           lt  -- Customize your theme here  -- gt           lt item name  colorButtonNormal  gt  color colorGray lt  item gt       lt  style gt    in button  add android theme   style AppTheme Gray   example    lt Button             android theme   style AppTheme Gray              android textColor   color colorWhite              android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content              android text   android string cancel   gt

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Since API level 21 you can use    android backgroundTint   android color white    you only have to add this in your xml

User · Answer

I think doing this way is much simpler   button setBackgroundColor Color BLACK     And you need to import android graphics Color  not  import android R color   Or you can just write the 4-byte hex code  not 3-byte  0xFF000000 where the first byte is setting the alpha

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