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state_pressed remains true while onClick is running

I want to set a different background color for a button only while the button is being touched by the user.
But that color remains that way during the whole time onClick for that button is running even though I am no longer touching the button
Please help me find a solution to this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#777777" />
<item android:color="#android:color/black" />
</selector>

Assuming your on-click method takes a long time, You should add a second item for stating the case of the button not being pressed:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#777777" />
<item android:state_pressed="false" android:color="#000000"/>
<item android:color="#android:color/black" />
</selector>

Custom button drawable state_pressed and state_checked not working on CheckBox or RadioButton - Android

I am setting custom drawable to the checkbox button,
But only android:state_checked="true" and android:state_checked="false" seem to work.
Other states aren't working.
I am unable to set a custom drawable on pressed state.
This is the selector I am using:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_checked="true" android:drawable="#drawable/radio_btn_selected" />
<item android:state_checked="false" android:drawable="#drawable/radio_btn_normal" />
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/radio_btn_pressed" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="#drawable/radio_btn_pressed" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/radio_btn_normal"/> <!-- default -->
</selector>
This is how I am setting it to radio button:
radioButton.setButtonDrawable(R.drawable.radio_btn_selectors);

android:state_pressed="true" and android:state_focused="true" are not working because of the ordering in which you declared various states. Whenever you declare a drawable like this, system will goes from top to bottom and if a state is matched, it doesn't look for the other ones and applies the changes based on the very first selection. I think here android:state_checked="false" condition might be executing instead of android:state_pressed="true" and android:state_focused="true". So move android:state_checked="false" to the bottom and then try.

How to change button background colour without changing onclick/onpress colors

I'm wondering if this is even possible but hopefully someone will be able to confirm.
I've created a simple custom button layout in XML to handle the focused/pressed and dormant states. See code at bottom. This works fine when I use it to create a new button. However, I would like the user to be able to change the button colour via a colour picker if they don't like the default. However, the only way I know to change the button background colour programmatically is to use
mybutton.setBackgroundColor(someothercolor);
but if I do this it overwrites all the XML layout code and I lose the colour change when the button is pressed. I guess this is by design as I'm essentially overwriting the entire background style but what I really want to do is to allow the user to change the button colour when its not pressed to something custom but keep the style and layout of the other states the button could be in (i.e. what happens when its pressed).
Any ideas anyone?
Thank you in advance.
Nat
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#color/originalbuttoncolor" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/someotherbuttoncolor" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/someotherbuttoncolor" />
<item android:drawable="#color/originalbuttoncolor" />
</selector>

Maybe you can consider creating a ColorStateList programmatically, as described here: How do I create ColorStateList programmatically?

You can try this:
1. remove the default color <item android:drawable="#color/originalbuttoncolor" />
2.Then:
`StateListDrawable ret = (StateListDrawable) res.getDrawable(R.drawable.btn_selector);
ret.addState(new int[] {}, new ColorDrawable(your_desire_color));
mybutton.setBackgroundDrawable(ret);`

You can make multiple files of your selector-list, each one contain different color as the default color, and link those files to the color picker, so you save your logic of selector.
For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#color/originalbuttoncolor" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/someotherbuttoncolor" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/someotherbuttoncolor" />
<item android:drawable="#color/originalbuttoncolor" />
</selector>
And:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="false" android:drawable="#color/yellowbuttoncolor" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/someotherbuttoncolor" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/someotherbuttoncolor" />
<item android:drawable="#color/originalbuttoncolor" />
</selector>
Edit: if you want to take color from user, this may work, if the selector state will overrided by this code:
ColorDrawable cd = new ColorDrawable(); // initialize it from the color picker;
StateListDrawable states = (StateListDrawable) mybutton.getBackground();
states.addState(new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_pressed, android.R.attr.state_focused}, cd); // the minus means false value
mybutton.setBackground(states);

Default Button's methods

I'd like to gain after onclick button efect similar to default in android, but with own colors
Default button is white or light gray
When i touch button color is changed for one moment (orange)
when release, button's color back to original color (white/light gray)
Which method's are using to this effect ?
I used onTouchListener() to set touched button color
and OnClickListener() to set back original color
But when i scroll group button(inner ScrollView) when i touch any button, color changed but when release button color ofc not change back. Which method should i use ? How can i fix that ?
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I created colors in values and define 2 colors
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<color name="white">#ffffff</color>
<color name="blue">#004080</color>
</resources>
I create new folder color and button_state.xml inner this folder
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_focused="true"
android:state_pressed="false"
android:drawable="#color/blue" />
<item android:state_focused="true"
android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#color/white" />
</selector>
to my button i assign code in xml file
android:background="#color/button_states"
Now my button have no background, but i don't know why

create xml file defining button states and button color depending on state, for example button_states.xml in res/color folder in your project:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#color/pressed_button_color"/>
<item android:state_selected="true"
android:drawable="#color/selected_button_color"/>
<item android:drawable="#color/default_button_color"/>
</selector>
define these colors in values/colors.xml
and use this in your layout xml file on the Button element as:
android:background="#color/button_states"

In the xml for your button set its background to the following
android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
This will automatically handle the colour changes to be default changes in android
If you want to have you own colours you need to do a custom selector and set it as your background. Something like the following should work:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_pressed" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_focused" />
<item android:drawable="#color/selector_background" />
</selector>
Your drawable would be like this:
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#color/selector_background_pressed"/>
</shape>
Not 100% sure but you might just be able to use #color/my_colour directly in the selector rather than referencing a drawable. But this way will definitely work

I recommend you use of this online tool. You just need to choose your desired color set and after download the resources put the in your project resource folder respectively and than apply theme to your you application in Manifest file with name name you set on this online tool("Theme Name" by default AppTheme)
<application android:debuggable="true" android:label="#string/app_name"android:theme="#style/AppTheme">

Android Button vs TextView - Hyperlink like behavior

On an Android View, I want to have a some clickable text that works similar to a webpage hyperlink.
It looks just like normal text (no button border), but when touched, I want the text color to change and I may also want its background to turn a reverse color.
Is it better to use a Button with a transparent background or a TextView. When should I choose one over the other?
Thanks much

you can use Button and make selector for background and text both.
textselector.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#0000ff"/> <!-- pressed -->
<item android:state_focused="true" android:color="#android:color/white"/> <!-- focused -->
<item android:color="#android:color/white"/> <!-- default -->
</selector>
buttonselector.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#android:color/white"/> <!-- pressed -->
<item android:state_focused="true" android:color="#0000ff"/> <!-- focused -->
<item android:color="#0000ff"/> <!-- default -->
</selector>
In your layout xml
<Button
android:id="#+id/button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/buttonselector"
android:text="some text"
android:textColor="#drawable/textselector" />

hotveryspicy gave a great answer and really pointed me in the right direction. Thank you, but I had a few issues with the response.
What I want is a button that has Black text and a Gray background in its normal state and a Red background with White text in its selected state. Like this:
Using hotveryspicy's suggestions I had the following issues:
I get an error when trying to assign a drawable to textColor. Funny but I see other references to doing this sort of thing. Maybe the XML validation is stricter now?
I also got an error if I didn't define a android:drawable in the buttonselector.xml. It seems you can set the color of a drawable in a selector eiter, you need to actually create a drawable.
Anyhow this is what I did:
I created a Color State Resource that looks like this:
File: res/colors/link_button.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#ffffff"/>
<item android:color="#000000"/>
</selector>
Then the following 3 drawables:
My button background in its normal state using a Shape Drawable:
File: res/drawable/link_button.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#cccccc"/>
</shape>
My button background in its selected state, also a Shape Drawable:
File: res/drawable/link_button_selected.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#ff0000"/>
</shape>
Then I created a Drawable Selector that chooses between the 2 shapes.
File: res/drawable/link_button_selector.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:drawable="#drawable/link_button_selected"
android:state_pressed="true" />
<item
android:drawable="#drawable/link_button" />
</selector>
Then in my layout my button looks like this:
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="10dp"
android:text="Button"
android:textColor="#color/link_button"
android:background="#drawable/link_button_selector"
/>
Thanks for the help everyone!

Add String like
<string name="link">'Google'</string>
In your layout
<TextView
android:id="#+id/link"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="all"
android:linksClickable="true"
android:text="#string/link" />

You can linkify your text using the linkify class.
Have a look at this and this with few examples

For Google's sake:
Rather than make a button look like a link why not make a TextView clickable? This was effectively what I wanted and worked for my use. I wanted text to be clickable to spawn an intent.
TextView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()