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Android - change textSize based on button pressed/unpressed state

I have a button background that change drawable if the state is pressed or not. I'm able to change text color and background like below but I would like to change text size. How can I do it .XML side?
drawable/button_selector.xml:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/toggle_pressed" android:state_selected="true" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/toggle_pressed" android:state_pressed="true" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/toggle_unpressed" />
</selector>
res/color/src_text:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="false" android:state_selected="false" android:color="#color/blue2"/>
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#color/color_concrete"/>
<item android:state_pressed="false" android:state_selected="true"
android:color="#color/color_concrete"/>
<item android:color="#color/blue2" />
</selector>
button:
<Button
android:id="#+id/playButton"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:background="#drawable/button_selector"
android:onClick="#{(v)->mainViewModel.playButtonClick(v)}"
android:paddingStart="20dp"
android:paddingEnd="20dp"
android:text="#string/play"
android:textColor="#color/src_text"
android:textSize="40sp"
android:visibility="#{mainViewModel.observableVisibilityPlayButton ? v.VISIBLE : v.GONE}"/>

You can create subclass of Button and override onTouch method
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
switch(event.getAction()) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
// button pressed, change textSize
return true;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
// button released, revert textSize
return true;
}
return false;
}

Since you're using databinding you can probably create a BindingAdapter like following:
#JvmStatic
#BindingAdapter("textSize")
fun bindTextSize(button: Button, size: Int) {
if(button.isPressed())
button.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, size);
}
Also keep a MutableLiveData field in the viewmodel (size) and change the value according to your need.
<Button
textSize="#{mainViewModel.size}
android:id="#+id/playButton"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:background="#drawable/button_selector"
android:onClick="#{(v)->mainViewModel.playButtonClick(v)}"
android:paddingStart="20dp"
android:paddingEnd="20dp"
android:text="#string/play"
android:textColor="#color/src_text"
android:textSize="40sp"
android:visibility="#{mainViewModel.observableVisibilityPlayButton ? v.VISIBLE : v.GONE}"/>

Setting background programmatically overrides drawable

I have a ListView and I have a Drawable for each item in the ListView to highlight each row when it's selected/pressed. I also have a custom adapter where I'm programatically setting the background color of each row (I want to have alternating background colors). This is a new feature I added and before adding the code the rows would highlight blue, but after they do not highlight. Not sure how to fix it. Here is what I have:
ListView item layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingLeft="5dip"
android:paddingRight="5dip"
android:paddingTop="8dip"
android:paddingBottom="8dip"
android:background="#drawable/app_selector"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text"
style="#style/ListingTitle"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:paddingBottom="2dip"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
Drawable
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/light_blue" />
<item android:state_selected="true" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#color/light_blue" />
<item android:state_activated="true" android:state_selected="false" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#color/light_blue" />
<item android:state_selected="false" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#android:color/transparent" />
</selector>
Fragment
public class ListingFragment extends SherlockListFragment
{
public void onActivityCreated(final Bundle icicle)
{
ListView lv = getListView();
mListView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE_MODAL);
mListView.setMultiChoiceModeListener(new MultiChoiceModeListener() {
#Override
public void onItemCheckedStateChanged(android.view.ActionMode mode, int position, long id, boolean checked) {
}
#Override
public boolean onActionItemClicked(android.view.ActionMode mode, android.view.MenuItem item) {
}
}
}
/* ADAPTER */
private class CustomAdapter extends BaseAdapter
{
#Override
public View getView(final int position, View convertView, final ViewGroup parent)
{
final ViewHolder holder;
if (convertView == null)
{
holder = new ViewHolder();
convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.item, parent, false);
}
else
{
holder = (ViewHolder)convertView.getTag();
}
if (position % 2 == 0)
convertView.setBackgroundColor(Color.GRAY);
else
convertView.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
return(convertView);
}
}
}

Expanding on dum's answer, you don't need to do all that work in code.
Drawable A
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/light_blue" />
<item android:state_selected="true" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#color/light_blue" />
<item android:state_activated="true" android:state_selected="false" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#color/light_blue" />
<item android:state_selected="false" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#android:color/transparent" />
</selector>
Drawable B
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/light_blue" />
<item android:state_selected="true" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#color/light_blue" />
<item android:state_activated="true" android:state_selected="false" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#color/light_blue" />
<item android:state_selected="false" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#android:color/gray" />
</selector>
In your Adapter:
if (position % 2 == 0) {
convertView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.A);
} else {
convertView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.B);
}

instead of changing the drawable with plain color, first create a new drawable programmatically and set the states just like in your xml and then set colors for each state. then try replacing your background with your programmatically created drwable.

Customizing android checkbox in application [duplicate]

I am using ListView and for every row I have row_item.xml and I inflate that in code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<CheckBox
android:id="#+id/chk"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtChoice"
android:textColor="#FF0000"
android:text="TEST"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/chk"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</RelativeLayout>
How to change that checkBox use another custom_1 image when is checked and another custom_2 image when is unchecked ?

Drawable customdrawablecheckbox.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_checked="false" android:drawable="#drawable/unchecked_drawable" />
<item android:state_checked="true" android:drawable="#drawable/checked_drawable" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/unchecked_drawable" /> <!-- default state -->
</selector>
yourcheckbox xml:
<CheckBox
android:id="#+id/chk"
android:button="#drawable/customdrawablecheckbox"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

checkbox is a button, so you can provide your own drawable with check uncheck state and it as checkbox background. For instance
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_checked="false" android:drawable="#drawable/yourdrawable1" />
<item android:state_checked="true" android:drawable="#drawable/yourdrawable2" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/yourdrawable1" /> <!-- default -->
</selector>
and put this in a file.xml in your drawable folder. In your checkbox:
<CheckBox
android:button="#drawable/file"
android:id="#+id/chk"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

Its pretty easy :)
First you need to create a CustomCheckBox class which will extend CheckBox and override the onDraw(Canvas canvas) method:
public class CustomCheckBox extends CheckBox {
private final Drawable buttonDrawable;
public CustomCheckBox(Context context, AttributeSet set) {
super(context, set);
buttonDrawable = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.custom_check_box);
try {
setButtonDrawable(android.R.color.transparent);
} catch (Exception e) {
// DO NOTHING
}
setPadding(10, 5, 50, 5);
}
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
buttonDrawable.setState(getDrawableState());
final int verticalGravity = getGravity() & Gravity.VERTICAL_GRAVITY_MASK;
final int height = buttonDrawable.getIntrinsicHeight();
if (buttonDrawable != null) {
int y = 0;
switch (verticalGravity) {
case Gravity.BOTTOM:
y = getHeight() - height;
break;
case Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL:
y = (getHeight() - height) / 2;
break;
}
int buttonWidth = buttonDrawable.getIntrinsicWidth();
int buttonLeft = getWidth() - buttonWidth - 5;
buttonDrawable.setBounds(buttonLeft, y, buttonLeft + buttonWidth, y + height);
buttonDrawable.draw(canvas);
}
}
}
Also create your selector named custom_check_box in your drawable folder:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_checked="true" android:state_window_focused="false"
android:drawable="#drawable/btn_check_on" />
<item android:state_checked="false" android:state_window_focused="false"
android:drawable="#drawable/btn_check_off" />
<item android:state_checked="true" android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/btn_check_on" />
<item android:state_checked="false" android:state_focused="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/btn_check_off" />
<item android:state_checked="false" android:drawable="#drawable/btn_check_off" />
<item android:state_checked="true" android:drawable="#drawable/btn_check_on" />
</selector>
And use your custom icons/imgs in the XML above for all three states (focused/pressed/default)
Use the custom component in your XML like this :
<*package + class path*.CustomCheckBox // example com.mypackage.ui.CustomCheckBox if your project is named "mypackage" and the class is in the "ui" folder
android:text="#string/text"
android:checked="false" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:id="#+id/myCheckbox" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
and java :
private CustomCheckBox mCheckbox;
mCheckbox = (CustomCheckBox) findviewbyid(R.id.myCheckbox);
It works because I used it both ways :) And with some tweaks it works for RadioButtons too the same way. Happy coding!

You can use selector in xml, which is used to change the image of checkbox dynamically according to its checked state.
For example:
<item android:drawable="#drawable/ic_linkedin" android:state_checked="true" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/ic_linkedin_disabled" android:state_checked="false" />
In the following file, if the checkbox is checked, it will set the ic_linkedin icon and if the checkbox is unchecked, it will set the ic_linkedin_disabled icon.

How to set text color as link?

I have textview which I want to change the color when I focus or cliclked it like a link text in web I have try to follow this but it still doesn't work
please help, thanks
this is my java code
public class TextColorActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
ColorStateList cl = null;
private TextView title;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
title = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.hello);
try {
Log.d("test","try");
XmlResourceParser xpp = getResources().getXml(R.drawable.selector_txt);
cl = ColorStateList.createFromXml(getResources(), xpp);
} catch (Exception e) {}
title.setTextColor(cl);
title.setFocusable(true);
title.setClickable(true);
title.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
Log.d("test","click");
}
});
}
this is my selector_txt.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_focused="true" android:color="#color/Darkgoldenrod"/>
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:state_enabled="false"
android:color="#color/Darkgreen" />
<item android:state_enabled="false" android:color="#color/Red" />
<item android:color="#color/blue"/>
and this is my main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/hello"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/hello"
android:textSize="30dp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:duplicateParentState="true"/>

You can also set your color in the xml if you want. Just create a color folder in your res folder and move the xml file there then you can set it via android:textColor="#color/selector_txt"
Regards the problem you're having. Android will always use the first match in a selector. If a TextView is pressed it is also focused. So add android:pressed="false" to your first item or move the line after the pressed status line.
That's the full xml:
<?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/Red" />
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#color/Darkgreen" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:color="#color/Darkgoldenrod"/>
<item android:color="#color/blue"/>
</selector>

ListView Item Selected State not working

So I have a ListView and I want to change the color of each items background and text. This ListView is inside a ListFragment. My code inflates the layout in the onCreateView and inflates the layout of each item in the newView.
The android:state_pressed="true" is working fine, whenever I press in one item the background changes to that color. But when selecting an item neither the bg color or text color changes, even though I've defined an item with android:state_selected="true" in the selector.
Edit: I'm using SDK level 11 (Android 3.0) and a Motorola Xoom.
The list fragment layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ListView
android:id="#android:id/list"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>
</LinearLayout>
The list item layout:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="25dp"
android:background="#drawable/list_item_bg_selector">
<TextView android:id="#+id/form_title"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="#dimen/text_size_xlarge"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textColor="#drawable/list_item_text_selector" />
<TextView android:id="#+id/form_subtitle"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="#dimen/text_size_medium"
android:textStyle="normal"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:textColor="#drawable/list_item_text_selector" />
</LinearLayout>
The background selector:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#color/white" />
<item
android:state_selected="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/list_item_bg_selected" />
<item
android:drawable="#color/list_bg" />
</selector>
The text selector:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:state_selected="true"
android:drawable="#color/white" />
<item
android:drawable="#color/list_text_blue" />
</selector>

The answer is to use the android:state_activated="true" state, instead of the "selected" state. More on this here: ListFragment Item Selected Background

The best solution with support of all API levels is to implement Checkable feature for list item View which means that the top view of your list item layout has to implement Checkable interface (in my case it was TextView, but the same can be applied on ViewGroup classes like LinearLayout). When you click on a list item, the ListView call setChecked method and there we change the state of View to use android:state_checked="true" selector. Together with list view android:choiceMode="singleChoice" it will select only one item.
The trick is to override onCreateDrawableState method and set the checked state here for drawables. See example of SelectableTextView bellow. After the setChecked is called, the checked state is stored and called refreshDrawableState.
Example of SelectableTextView:
package com.example.widget.SelectableTextView;
import android.annotation.TargetApi;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Build;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.Checkable;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class SelectableTextView extends TextView implements Checkable {
private static final int[] CHECKED_STATE_SET = {
android.R.attr.state_checked
};
private boolean mChecked;
public SelectableTextView(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public SelectableTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public SelectableTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
}
#TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
public SelectableTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
}
#Override
public void setChecked(boolean checked) {
if (mChecked != checked) {
mChecked = checked;
refreshDrawableState();
}
}
#Override
public boolean isChecked() {
return mChecked;
}
#Override
public void toggle() {
setSelected(!mChecked);
}
#Override
protected int[] onCreateDrawableState(int extraSpace) {
final int[] drawableState = super.onCreateDrawableState(extraSpace + 1);
if (isChecked()) {
mergeDrawableStates(drawableState, CHECKED_STATE_SET);
}
return drawableState;
}
}
Example of selectable_list_item.xml layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<com.example.widget.SelectableTextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#android:id/text1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:textColor="#color/list_item_selector_foreground"
android:background="#drawable/list_item_selector_background"
tools:text="Item 1"/>
Example of list_item_selector_foreground.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!-- checked -->
<item android:color="#color/list_item_text_active" android:state_checked="true"/>
<item android:color="#color/list_item_text"/>
</selector>
Example of list_item_selector_background.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#color/list_item_background_selected" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#color/list_item_background_selected" android:state_focused="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#color/list_item_background_active" android:state_checked="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#color/list_item_background"/>
</selector>

Do not forget to set clickable="true" for the layout. This solved my problem.
List item layout:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/list_item_bg_selector"
android:clickable="true" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tvNewsPreviewTitle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="3"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:textSize="#dimen/news_preview_title_textsize"
android:textStyle="bold" />
</RelativeLayout>
Background selector:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" >
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#color/black" />
<gradient android:startColor="#color/white" android:endColor="#color/white" />
</shape>
</item>
<item>
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#color/holo_gray_darker" />
<gradient android:startColor="#color/holo_gray_bright" android:endColor="#color/holo_gray_bright" />
</shape>
</item>
</selector>

#Andrew S: Along with using activated state in selector , activated state must be set to false for default case as shown in below selector code.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="false"
android:state_activated="false"
android:color="#color/dark_text_blue"/>
<item android:state_pressed="true"
android:color="#color/red"/>
<item android:state_activated="true"
android:color="#color/red"/>
</selector>