How to save the style of button and retrive it later? - java

I need to store the current style of button,so that whenever activity is sent to background or destroyed and restarted the buttons retain the style they had last time.I know how to save and retrieve information for textviews but i have no idea how to do that for button styles, basically i am more confused about how to retrieve it.
Here is my code for setting button style:
case R.id.darkorange:
for (Button currentButton : buttons) {
currentButton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.darkorange);
}
Now orange can be anything purple, red, blue or green. How do i save this inforation about button and retrive it later when activity is recreated.

Do it like these:
res/drawable/solid.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle">
<gradient
android:startColor="#0078a5"
android:endColor="#00adee"
android:angle="90"/>
<padding android:left="15dp"
android:top="1dp"
android:right="15dp"
android:bottom="1dp" />
<stroke
android:width="1dp"
android:color="#0076a3" />
<corners android:radius="8dp" />
</shape>
activity_main.xml:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
style="#style/NiceButton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Colors"/>
</LinearLayout>
res/values/strings.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="app_name">Buttons</string>
<string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
<string name="hello_world">Color</string>
</resources>
res/values/styles.xml:
<resources>
<!--
Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
by AppBaseTheme from res/values-vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
-->
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light">
<!--
Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
backward-compatibility can go here.
-->
</style>
<!-- Application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
<!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
</style>
<style name="NiceButton" parent="#android:style/Widget.Button">
<item name="android:gravity">center_vertical|center_horizontal</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
<item name="android:background">#drawable/solid</item>
<item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
<item name="android:focusable">true</item>
<item name="android:clickable">true</item>
</style>
</resources>
Output:

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Changing activity label color - Android Studio

In my app i don't know how the color of activity label changed from white to black. I want to to make it white again. I tried various ways. Here are some pieces of code:
This is my action bar:
<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
android:id="#+id/appBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize">
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
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</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>
This is my theme:
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<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="Theme.FlikrApp" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar">
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<item name="colorOnPrimary">#color/white</item>
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I tried this as well in onCreate method but didn't work:
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I added to my themes this as well but nothing
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Use material design theme which automatically colors the statusBar as colorPrimaryDark value. Change your colorDarkPrimary according to the color of status bar you want.
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<item name="android:statusBarColor" tools:targetApi="l">?attr/colorPrimaryVariant</item>
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</style>
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Nothing worked for me till now but then I came up with a way that has to do nothing with theme.xml file.
I added this to my onCreate
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android:id="#+id/appBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize">
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android:id="#+id/toolBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
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Android custom ratingbar with dynamic numstar and custom icon behaving weird on click

I am trying to create a custom rating bar where number of stars is dynamic and the drawable that I need to use also depends on the type, that I get from server.
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android:layout_height="wrap_content"
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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Color statelist not working on recyclerview textview

I set up a color statelist like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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Hi Implement your XML like the below code , Hope it would be helpful may be the issue is you have given both state_pressed and state_selected = true.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
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Turns out I needed to set this on the textview to make it work:
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