[Solved] Custom Button Colors...

aetmos · by **aetmos** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:44 am

Hi Plusminus,

Would you mind expanding upon your comments regarding modifying the highlight colors of a button here:

http://groups.google.com/group/android- ... eaf38d45e7

I've read this page, but I just don't see how I can use this to modify the button highlight colors. I just want something other than the horribly ugly orange that is the default of the new SDK. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:29 pm

Hello aetmos,

I haven't done that tutorial my self, it was created by benderamp, but I would start here:

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     /** Return an array of resource IDs of
      * the Drawable states representing the
      * current state of the view. */
     @Override
     protected int[] onCreateDrawableState(int arg0) {
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Here we very probably have to return our custom custom "nine-patch"-images.
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http://code.google.com/android/referenc ... #ninepatch

Regards,
plusminus

aetmos · by **aetmos** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:03 pm

Thanks for your help, Plusminus. After doing some digging, it looks like that the returned array holds references to "states", not drawables. For instance, when the button is focused/orange, onCreateDrawableState is returning this array: {0x101016E,0x101016F,0x1010170}. When the button isn't focused/orange, it's returning this: {0x101016F,0x1010170}. By decompiling Android's R.class, it looks like these resources are:

0x101016E: state_focused
0x101016F: state_window_focused
0x1010170: state_enabled

So, unfortunately, I still don't know where the image resources are being referenced, or how to change them...I wonder why they picked orange of all colors...

Tom

aetmos · by **aetmos** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:39 pm

SOLVED!!!!

Okay, so it's not necessary to create a custom view. The rather simple solution is posted here:

http://groups.google.com/group/android- ... 77e25d63a6

In res/drawable, create a file called for instance mybutton_background.xml
and put something like this inside:

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

Then set this drawable as the background of your button with
android:background="@drawable/mybutton_background"

Thanks,
Tom

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