Button setBackgroundColor no highlight effect

Question

When I create a Button,

Button myButton = new Button(this);
myButton.setText("Click Me!");

it creates a button, that on click, turns "Orange" to indicate the click.

To the button when I add,

button.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);

It creates a blue rectangle, and on click does not have a hightlight effect.

I don't mind the rectangle part, I want to get the orange highlight effect though.

Cannot use XML, need to do this in code.

Thanks

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 05 '13 at 14:48

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For setting background color/image and having click highlight effect....you have set the style/theme for the button.

The style/theme contains the color attributes for various states of button such as focused / enabled / disabled/ etc.

edited Apr 05 '13 at 14:48

Daniel

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Paresh Mayani

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@chris....Generally you cant change style of any control programmatically...refer this answer(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2016249/how-to-programmatically-setting-style-attribute-in-a-view/2016344#2016344) this makes your doubt clear..... – Paresh Mayani Jul 21 '10 at 08:32

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 19 '11 at 23:11

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I have the same problem with you and fixed it strangely. You need to type button.setBackgroundColor(android.graphics.Color.GREEN);, because we didn't import class android.graphics.Color. Good luck! :D.

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animuson

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answered Sep 15 '11 at 14:40

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