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Question

I am trying to very simply style a Button. I just want it blue with with text when not pressed, and white with blue text when clicked.

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Answer 1

android:background seems to accept drawable selectors but not color selectors... so just leave a color as your android:background, and use a normal color selector with android:backgroundTint, which expects colors anyway:

at styles.xml:

<style name="MyButton">
    <item name="android:background">@color/some_fixed_color</item>
    <item name="android:backgroundTint">@color/background_color_selector</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@drawable/btn_textcolor</item>
</style>

(res/color/background_color_selector.xml is a normal color selector.)

Answer 2

Try this way,hope this will help you to solve your problem.

btn_background.xml

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

btn_textcolor.xml

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

Answer 3

• Background attribute expects a drawable and the drawable selector must be in one of the /drawable folders.
• TextColor attribute expects a color and the color selector must be in one of the /color folders.

/res/color/my_textcolor_selctor.xml
/res/drawable/my_background_selector.xml

Also, the drawable selector must use 'android:drawable' for selector items (a color resource maybe used for the attribute value since a color is a drawable), whereas the color selector must use 'android:color' for the selector items.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_enabled="false"
        android:drawable="@color/disabledbackgroundColor" />
    <!-- default -->
    <item android:drawable="@color/myBackgroundColor" />
</selector>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_enabled="false"
        android:color="@color/disabledColor" />
    <!-- default -->
    <item android:color="@color/defaultColor" />
</selector>