change background color of layout programmatically

Asked May 07 '13 at 03:49

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I have table using table layout. And I have drawable resource for each column. The drawable resource is here.

<shape android:shape= "rectangle">
      <solid android:color="@color/white"/>
      <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="@color/red"/>
      <size android:width="100dp" android:height="50dp"/>
      <padding
          android:left="5dp"
          android:top="5dp"
          android:right="5dp"
          android:bottom="5dp" />
</shape>

I used setBackgroundResource() method. My problem is that I would like to change background color of some columns in run-time depend on the logic. When I use setBackgroundColor method, the drawable resource for that column has gone. Is there any way to do this? Actually I don't want to create another drawable for that column. This may be second way.

edited Jan 16 '19 at 06:30

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use setBackgroundDrawable? – Chor Wai Chun May 07 '13 at 03:53
It is deprecated. Isn't it? – user1156041 May 07 '13 at 03:55
perhaps, it says user setBackground(Drawable) in the javadoc but I couldn't find any. Well referring to other people answers, you need to set your project API version to at least 16, then you may use setBackground. – Chor Wai Chun May 07 '13 at 03:57
Here it is: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#setBackground(android.graphics.drawable.Drawable). – Voicu May 07 '13 at 04:02
Have you tried creating a shape for each color you want and then set the background resource for the column to the shape with the color you desire? – HeatfanJohn May 07 '13 at 04:07
yes. i got it. I will do my second way. thank anyway. – user1156041 May 07 '13 at 04:14
Possible duplicate of [Set Background color programmatically](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23517879/set-background-color-programmatically) – Martin Zeitler Jan 16 '19 at 06:44
or even from 2010: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2173936/how-to-set-background-color-of-a-view – Martin Zeitler Jan 16 '19 at 06:45

change background color of layout programmatically

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