How to make a button appear pressed when it is not?

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I have a button that plays a sound clip when it is pressed. I would like the button to appear pressed during the duration of the sound clip. By that, I mean that I would like the button to take on the default pressed-button appearance while the sound is playing. How can I implement this? I have tried using a number of things in the onClickListener (such as setSelected, requestFocus, etc), but none of those do the trick. I have also tried changing the onClickListener to an onTouchListener, again with no dice. Am I wrong in assuming that there must be a way to simply set the button image to appear pressed? (BTW, the button object is of type Button, not ImageButton).

Thanks for any advice!

change the background of button to pressed state inside `onClickListener()` — Adil Soomro, Aug 27 '11 at 07:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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Please see this question. It details a couple of different ways this can be done.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered Aug 27 '11 at 07:19

Jack

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '11 at 07:20

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Lookup 'selector' drawables and let android take care of this for you.

answered Aug 27 '11 at 07:20

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How to make a button appear pressed when it is not?

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