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Android Implementing Designs for Android Customizing the Login Screen Customizing Buttons

Jaan Karu
Jaan Karu
4,675 Points
Posted by Jaan Karu
Jaan Karu
4,675 Points

Custom button styling seems not working for me.

Hello, I have Android Studio 1.2.1.1. Trying to make this working although the lessons are for Eclipse. I created button_custon.xml in drawable folder, then I try as shown in the video to set background with it, but there is no such file in auto-suggest. Any ideas?

Andre Colares
Andre Colares
5,437 Points
Andre Colares
Andre Colares
5,437 Points

Go to your res folder in windows explorer>create a txt document> change his name to custom_button.xml>inside the document paste it:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> item android:drawable="@color/pressed_purple_button" android:state_pressed="true" /> item android:drawable="@color/focused_purple_button" android:state_focused="true" /> item android:drawable="@color/light_purple_button" /> selector>

In your button declaration you will do like this:

<Button android:id="@+id/loginButton" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_below="@+id/EditTextLayout" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_alignParentStart="true" android:text="@string/login_button_label" android:background="@drawable/button_custom" android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:textSize="13sp"/>