Button styles in Android

Question

When I place a button in a layout, it has a standard gray background. However I want to make it more like the kind of button you see in the Dialogs where it's a background-less button (e.g. the white buttons with text).

Like this

Not like this... not like this...

What did you try so far? Post your code! What happened when you ran it? What did you expect to happen instead? — Robert, Sep 11 '16 at 02:37

Antonio Ribeiro · Answer 1 · 2017-09-21T13:48:48.523

Old question but I just stumbled on it and have the answer (or at least I think), I really don't know if that's the best approach, but it should do the job.

<Button
    android:id="@+id/sign_in_button"
    style="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Borderless.Colored"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

The trick here is the @style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Borderless.Colored. Also see this answer, it explains a lot https://stackoverflow.com/a/36666660/1920068

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '16 at 22:19

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try this

android:background="@android:color/transparent"

answered Sep 10 '16 at 22:19

lanniaoyidingying

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 10 '16 at 23:19

Just use a TextView instead, and put a click effect with the background:

<TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textColor="#23ac29"
        android:text="Signup"
        android:textSize="18sp"
        android:padding="8dp"
        android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"/>

Button styles in Android

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