Change the shape color in an Android XML

Question

I have android drawable that I'm going to apply to the background of several TextViews

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <item> 
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
      <solid android:color="#000000" /> 
    </shape>
  </item>   

    <item android:id="@+id/clr"
        android:left="0.5dp" android:right="0.5dp"  android:top="0.5dp" android:bottom="0.5dp" >  
     <shape android:shape="rectangle"> 
      <solid android:color="#FFF000" />
    </shape>
   </item>    
 </layer-list>

I want to change the color of this programmatically. How can I do that?

Try That: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5940825/android-change-shape-color-in-runtime?rq=1 — Engr Waseem Arain, Dec 09 '13 at 04:22
This user also claims that this solution works: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10448441/2157961 — cheezy, Dec 09 '13 at 04:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 18 '16 at 10:58

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It's possible to do it like this

// "cellLabel" background colour of textview or button etc. 
LayerDrawable layers = (LayerDrawable) cellLabel.getBackground();
// drawable item id
GradientDrawable shape = (GradientDrawable) (layers.findDrawableByLayerId(R.id.clr));
shape.setColor(my_color);

edited Nov 18 '16 at 10:58

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answered Dec 09 '13 at 05:53

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Change the shape color in an Android XML

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