Standard Android Button with a different color
- by Mike
I'd like to change the color of a standard Android button slightly in order to better match a client's branding. For example, see the "Find a Table" button for the OpenTable application:
The best way I've found to do this so far is to change the Button's drawable to the following drawable located in res/drawable/red_button.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/red_button_pressed" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/red_button_focus" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/red_button_rest" />
</selector>
But doing that requires that I actually create three different drawables for each button I want to customize (one for the button at rest, one when focused, and one when pressed). That seems more complicated and non-DRY than I need.
All I really want to do is apply some sort of color transform to the button. Is there an easier way to go about changing a button's color than I'm doing?
