Question

I’ve developed a custom control for a button that can have an image and a text, as I didn’t find a standard widget that can do that. It works nice, but what I run into now is, that when the button is clicked, the textview does not change it’s state to pressed. I would like to have this behaviour so that I can apply a ColorStateList for the textview, so that the text color changes when the button is pressed.
This is my xml layout of the custom button:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/image_text_button"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:background="@drawable/btn_background"
    android:visibility="visible"

     >

    <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/layoutContent"
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:padding="3dp"
        android:duplicateParentState="true">

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/imageView"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_weight="2"
            android:duplicateParentState="true"
            android:gravity="bottom|center_horizontal"
            android:src="@drawable/testing_teaser1"
             />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textField"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:duplicateParentState="true"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="This is a ImageTextButton"
            android:textColor="@color/black" />


    </LinearLayout>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:background="@drawable/btn_bg_selector"
        />

</FrameLayout>

How can I link the textview to the button state? android:duplicateParentState="true" does not work, because the button is not the parent of the textview.

Cheers Dude

Answer 1

just set the OnClickListener to the LinearLayout or FrameLayout instead of setting it to Button, in the Button xml, you should also add android:duplicateParentState="true"