How to get a Button's background back to default (programmatically)?

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So I'm setting a button's background doing this:

b.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.custom_button1);

How do I programmatically set it back to the default (boring grey) Android button? Is there a R.android.boring_grey resource identifier I can reference without recreating those states myself? Couldn't seem to find it. Maybe my Googling skills are failing me.

Oh and by the way I tried this:

   b.setBackgroundResource(0);

And the button actually disappeared (blended with black background?).

score 39 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 06 '12 at 07:54

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Have you tried this?

android.R.drawable.btn_default;

edited Sep 06 '12 at 07:54

Deepak Swami

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answered Jun 24 '11 at 18:09

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That's the one, thanks. Couldn't find it for the life of me. Saw a previous post about this, but they left off the "android.R" part and just had "R.drawable" – Fraggle Jun 24 '11 at 18:16
The answer below suits people who have initially customised their buttons differently. – A Person Mar 23 '13 at 09:11
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Is there any way to get the system default button instead of what looks like the Gingerbread default button? – reubenjohn Apr 08 '15 at 09:12
This did not work as the btn_default may is not always the default for your app! I used @piotrpo's answer and it worked like a charm. – SilentNot Apr 01 '19 at 12:17

piotrpo · Answer 2 · 2013-03-23T09:21:38.787

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first get the default background of Button b; using

Drawable d = b.getBackground();

then set another background of your choice

b.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.custom_button1);

if you need default background again use this

b.setBackgroundDrawable(d);

edited Mar 23 '13 at 09:21

answered Jun 24 '11 at 18:09

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I would say this answer is better then the accepted one. The accepted answer gave me a android 2.3 style button, while this gave me exactly the original button (which it is way more likely to do then the accepted answer). – Timmiej93 Apr 19 '16 at 17:06
thank you so much for this answer! I searched for a proper solution for so long, and finally found it here. this is exactly what i wanted. – Diptangsu Goswami Jan 31 '17 at 16:59
Since btn_default is not the default for every app, I used this answer. Not the accepted one! – SilentNot Apr 01 '19 at 12:15

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 14 '13 at 10:10

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Use this

b.tr.setBackgroundDrawable(null);

answered Jan 14 '13 at 10:10

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the method setBackgroundDrawable is deprecated – Panciz Nov 11 '14 at 11:44
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use setBackground(Drawable) instead – stefan222 Aug 25 '15 at 10:07

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 15 '14 at 18:41

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I did it by

this.setBackgroundResource(android.R.drawable.btn_default);

answered Dec 15 '14 at 18:41

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Sep 06 '12 at 07:56

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try

button.setBackgroundResourses(R.drawable.yourimage);

it will set the default background of buttons. and you can read more default properties of android widgets from given link: https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/res/res/values/styles.xml

edited Sep 06 '12 at 07:56

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answered Aug 01 '12 at 10:55

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artdeell · Answer 6 · 2020-05-04T15:50:58.853

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Drawable for "modern" button in XML is @android:drawable/btn_default_material
It does not exist in android.R.drawable for some reason.

EDIT: it's private, so don't use it.

edited May 04 '20 at 15:50

answered May 04 '20 at 15:18

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