Expanding on Vikram's answer, if you are coloring dynamic views, like recycler view items, etc.... Then you probably want to call mutate() before you set the color. If you don't do this, any views that have a common drawable (i.e a background) will also have their drawable changed/colored.
public static void setBackgroundColorAndRetainShape(final int color, final Drawable background) {
if (background instanceof ShapeDrawable) {
((ShapeDrawable) background.mutate()).getPaint().setColor(color);
} else if (background instanceof GradientDrawable) {
((GradientDrawable) background.mutate()).setColor(color);
} else if (background instanceof ColorDrawable) {
((ColorDrawable) background.mutate()).setColor(color);
}else{
Log.w(TAG,"Not a valid background type");
}
}