I want to tint my tabhost's icons using xml, instead of doing it programatically (I wasn't able to do that anyway)... So I found this thread on SO: Android imageview change tint to simulate button click
That seems to be a pretty good solution, but I wasn't able to adapt it correctly in my project... I did the following changes:
public class TintableImageView extends ImageView { private ColorStateList tint; public TintableImageView(Context context) { super(context); } //this is the constructor that causes the exception public TintableImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs); init(context, attrs, 0); } public TintableImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) { super(context, attrs, defStyle); init(context, attrs, defStyle); } //here, obtainStyledAttributes was asking for an array private void init(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) { TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, new int[]{R.styleable.TintableImageView_tint}, defStyle, 0); tint = a.getColorStateList(R.styleable.TintableImageView_tint); a.recycle(); } @Override protected void drawableStateChanged() { super.drawableStateChanged(); if (tint != null && tint.isStateful()) updateTintColor(); } public void setColorFilter(ColorStateList tint) { this.tint = tint; super.setColorFilter(tint.getColorForState(getDrawableState(), 0)); } private void updateTintColor() { int color = tint.getColorForState(getDrawableState(), 0); setColorFilter(color); } } I also wasn't able to reference @drawable/selector.xml at android:tint, so I did this at colors.xml:
#2e7cb4 @drawable/tab_icon_selector My selector:
My tab layout:
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance
[EDIT] I was getting a NumberFormatException for using android:tint, when the correct was app:tint (after setting xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.myapp")... but now I think I'm using my selector in a wrong way, because the icons are all black, no matter the state... I've tried setting
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