Question

I have an Activity which has a style resource set in the manifest (using android:theme="@style/blah". I wish to dynamically change the background colour of this Activity in Java code. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/activityRootContainer>

</FrameLayout>

Then in your code:

findViewById(R.id.activityRootContainer).setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.backgroundImage))

or

findViewById(R.id.activityRootContainer).setBackgroundColor(Color.RED)

HTH?