Tint / dim drawable on touch

Question

The app I\'m currently working on uses a lot of ImageViews as buttons. The graphics on these buttons use the alpha channel to fade out the edges of the button and make them look

Answer 1

For those who have encountered a similar need, solving this in code is fairly clean. Here is a sample:

public class TintableButton extends ImageView {

    private boolean mIsSelected;

    public TintableButton(Context context) {
        super(context);
        init();
    }   

    public TintableButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init();
    }   

    public TintableButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        init();
    }

    private void init() {
        mIsSelected = false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN && !mIsSelected) {
            setColorFilter(0x99000000);
            mIsSelected = true;
        } else if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP && mIsSelected) {
            setColorFilter(Color.TRANSPARENT);
            mIsSelected = false;
        }

        return super.onTouchEvent(event);
    }
}

It's not finished but works well as a proof of concept.