Question

Normally the buttons have this nice looking formatting. For most of my program i want to change my button background to an invisible background, and i use

myButton.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

so i can still see the text but not the background. then later on i do

 myButton.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREY);

but my button just looks like a grey textbox with text, it loses all its nice button formatting. how can i change it back to have the nice default button feel? am i making the background invisible incorrectly?

Answer 1

you could save the drawable of the button and set it back to how it was later:

    Drawable originalBackground = button.getBackground();

    button.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
    ...
    button.setBackgroundDrawable(originalBackground);