We Keep Coding

ImageButton onclick

When I click restart button, it creates blue coloured thing. How to set that blue coloured thing to transparent? Please help me.

Set your image in android:src and set the background as null to remove the visual feedback:
android:background="#null"
Please note that this will remove the visual feedback for button press and is not recommended. Use a selector to set different images depending on the button state for better UX

If you are using "Button", try using "selector" as background(android:background="#drawable/button_selector").
A sample selector -> button_selector.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/button_bg_selected" android:state_selected="true"></item>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/button_bg_pressed" android:state_pressed="true"></item>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/button_bg_normal"></item>
</selector>

use ImageView Instead of ImageButton
<ImageView
android:layout_width="120dp"
android:layout_height="130dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_marginEnd="20dp"
android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
android:background="?android:selectableItemBackground" android:id="#+id/ibtn_restart" />
and in Java file
ImageView ibtn_restart=(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.ibtn_restart);

How can I add a background color to an Android SwitchPreference? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Custom SwitchPreference in Android
(4 answers)
Closed 5 years ago.
I am using a PreferenceFragment to inflate an xml file with a single SwitchPreference. How can I make the background color of that preference including the title of the SwitchPreference to match the image below. I have tried setting the background but I am only able to set the background color of the switch icon.

styles.xml (make this style in style.xml file in values folder)
<resources>
<style name="SwitchTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- switch on thumb & track color -->
<item name="colorControlActivated">#02c754</item>
<!-- switch off thumb color -->
<item name="colorSwitchThumbNormal">#f1f1f1</item>
<!-- switch off track color -->
<item name="android:colorForeground">#42221f1f</item>
</style>
</resources>
your_layout_activity.xml
<android.support.v7.widget.SwitchCompat
android:id="#+id/switch_on_off"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:checked="true"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingLeft="30dp"
android:theme="#style/SwitchTheme"
app:switchMinWidth="55dp"/>
this source is worked for me. Try with this you will get understand

I have done this using the style
Style.xml
<style name="SwitchTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="colorControlActivated">#color/yourcolor</item>
</style>
in Layout
<android.support.v7.widget.SwitchCompat
android:id="#+id/switch_on_off"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:checked="false"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/padding"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/padding"
app:switchMinWidth="#dimen/switch_size"
app:theme="#style/SwitchTheme" />

How do I mimick the Lollipop (Material Design) button animation?

There's a style called Widget.Material.Button that has an animation effect that I really like (it makes a "splash" around your click), and I want to be able to reuse it in my code.
I'm trying to make it have a transparent background color, since it is gray by default which does not look good when applied to my ViewGroup objects.
Is there an easy way to keep the animation, but get rid of the background color?
I already tried setting the property android:background="#android:color/transparent", but that causes the animation to completely stop working.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
style="#android:style/Widget.Material.Button"
tools:targetApi="lollipop">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Hello, world!"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="This is just another line of text."/>
</LinearLayout>

As mentioned in this blog under 'Clickable Views', you can use android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground">
...
</LinearLayout>

Sorry for giving the wrong bit initially. The problem as looking a bit deeper is the background color is defined already as part of whatever you are using for your MaterialTheme extension for color highlights. Ironically, they have sources from transparent elsewhere but not here ?
What you want to so is make TWO new xml files to define your properties
In vales-v21/styles.xml you can redefine these any way you like or eliminate values you don't want to override
IF YOU JUST WANT THE RIPPLE, USE THE DRAWABLE CODE DEFINED AT THE BOTTOM
<style name="MyMaterialButton" parent=android:Widget.Material.Button>
<item name="background">#drawable/material_background_ripple</item>
<item name="textAppearance">?attr/textAppearanceButton</item>
<item name="minHeight">48dip</item>
<item name="minWidth">88dip</item>
<item name="stateListAnimator">#anim/button_state_list_anim_material</item>
<item name="focusable">true</item>
<item name="clickable">true</item>
<item name="gravity">center_vertical|center_horizontal</item>
</style>
Then your button background style
/drawable-v21/material_background_ripple.xml
<ripple xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:color="#android:color/PICK_RIPPLE_COLOR_HERE">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/btn_default_mtrl_shape" />
</ripple>
Redacted:
Have you tried
customView.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawableResource(R.color.transparent);
?

ActionBar with icon and text in portrait mode

I can't seem to get an image and text to work in portrait mode on menu items in the action bar no matter what I try. I even tried to force android portrait orientation
My XML:
<item android:id="#+id/menu_save"
android:icon="#drawable/content"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="New Group"
android:showAsAction="withText|always" />
Has anyone figured this out?

From the config.xml file of the native ActionBar:
values:
<bool name="config_allowActionMenuItemTextWithIcon">false</bool>
values-480dp:
<bool name="config_allowActionMenuItemTextWithIcon">true</bool>
To answer your question:
No you can't do that, if the devices width is smaller than 480dp. (Unless you want to create a custom rom with a modded framework)

Ahmad's answer makes clear why this is not possible. It is annoying that the action bar is not easier to customise.
One quick and dirty solution is to put two buttons in the menu, remove the icon from one and give the second a different name. Then in the corresponding java file, replicate the functionality for the extra button in onOptionsItemSelected. This gets over having to create a custom view for the action bar.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:yourapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
<item android:id="#+id/action_done"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_done"
android:title="#string/done"
yourapp:showAsAction="always" />
<item android:id="#+id/action_done2"
android:title="#string/done"
yourapp:showAsAction="always" />
<item android:id="#+id/action_cancel"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_cancel"
android:title="#string/cancel"
yourapp:showAsAction="always" />
<item android:id="#+id/action_cancel2"
android:title="#string/cancel"
yourapp:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>
I also saw this answer but didn't try it: withText in split ActionBar #Google Calendar Method. This is how it is done in Google Calendar but also relies on a custom view replacing the action bar.

The easiest way to do it is:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:ignore="AppCompatResource">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_nexo"
android:title="title"
app:actionLayout="#layout/custom_menu_item"
app:showAsAction="always"/>
</menu>
custom_menu_item.xml
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="#string/nexo_tile_short"
android:clickable="true"
android:focusable="true"
android:textSize="#dimen/text_size_small"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textColor="?attr/actionMenuTextColor"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/padding_small"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/padding_small"
android:src="#drawable/nexo"/>
</LinearLayout>

issue in custom title bar (android)

when i customize title bar in view by adding a image, i face an issue as the images is not fixed to the edges accurately. I have attached the image where you can see space between the window margin and image added. How to overcome this problem. Below are the code that i have used to customize the title bar. Can anyone help me to fix this issue.
java code :
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.home_view);
this.getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE,
R.layout.upwindow);
layout code :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="32dp">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/up_bar"
android:src="#drawable/up_bar" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/pagename"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:text="Sify MyStorage"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
</RelativeLayout>

create style xml in values folder :
<resources>
<style name="CustomWindowTitleBackground" />
<style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:Theme">
<item name="android:windowTitleSize">32dp</item>
<item name="android:windowTitleBackgroundStyle">#style/CustomWindowTitleBackground
</item>
</style>
</resources>
then refer it in manifest as :
android:theme="#style/CustomTheme">
this will solve it .
hope this help .

Do you have different images for different resolutions? It might be that your image simply does not fit that space, and that you need a larger one. Be careful though, you might run into issues with your app working across different platforms with scaling.

You need to play a little with styling in order to override this behavior. Define a custom theme (style) as below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="customTitle">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/up_bar</item>
</style>
<style name="myTheme" parent="android:Theme">
<item name="android:windowTitleBackgroundStyle">#style/customTitle</item>
</style>
</resources>
and then use this theme in your activity by applying android:theme="#style/myTheme" to your desired activity tag in AndroidManifest.xml

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
and setBackground to your layout in layout file...
Like,,,
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:background="#drawable/up_bar" <---Add this
android:layout_height="32dp">
and Remove imageview from xml