With AppCompat than with the Material Components for Android. Posts or Stack Overflow, are more likely to succeed in what they are trying to do Newcomers to Android, reading the documentation or Medium Tends to behave like a regular Button, at least in terms of things like Inflater magic means that turns into an AppCompatButton, but AppCompatButton But, it at least works fairly conventionally. Just to set a background color on a button.ĪppCompat is far from perfect. So, we have to wander to multiple sites and deal with conflicting documentation, What the alternative is (hint: use android:backgroundTint or adjust colorPrimary in The MaterialButton documentation does not do a particularly good job of explaining So, the documentation says to use android:background, and the documentation says not to use android:background.
Note: is auto-inflated as via MaterialComponentsViewInflater when using a non- Bridge Theme.MaterialComponents.* theme.Įven experienced developers might have a difficult time interpreting that.īut that might lead you to this page on MaterialButton,ĭo not use the android:background attribute
#ANDROID STUDIO THEMES NOT W FOR ANDROID#
The Material Components for Android documentation for Button
Why? Because Material Components for Android does not work that way. To customize individual buttons with a different background, specify the android:background attribute with a drawable or color resource.įantastic! So you set up a color for your android:background, or maybe even a ĭrawable resource, as this developer did…Īnd you find that your background does not take effect. So you click that “Styling Your Button” linkĪnd proceed to read about how you might consider setting your theme to Theme.Holo,īecause that page has not been updated in six years or so.
#ANDROID STUDIO THEMES NOT W CODE#
For more details and code samples, see the Styling Your Button guide. If you are not satisfied with the default button style, you can customize it. Suppose you decide that reading the documentation is the thing to do.Īnd you see a helpful paragraph on just your topic of concern:Įvery button is styled using the system’s default button background, which is often different from one version of the platform to another. You add a to yourĪctivity_main layout resource, and you want to change its background.Īt this point, you’re already screwed, and you are only a few minutes into your You installĪndroid Studio 4.1 and use the new-project wizard. A new-project wizard shouldīe aimed at newcomers, because their very first experience with Android appĭevelopment will come from the project that the wizard creates.Īnd for newcomers, Material Components for Android is a dreadful choice, in partīecause newcomers have no idea that this library exists, what it is for, or howįor example, suppose you are a brand-new Android app developer. However,Ī new-project wizard should not be aimed at experienced developers, as experiencedĭevelopers probably already have their project. The default theme to use asĪ base, at least when using many of the templates.įor an experienced developer, this is a reasonable choice.
The Material Components for Android library by default, and sets up
A Poor Default (Or: Why Your Button Does Not Work)Īndroid Studio 4.1’s new-project wizard creates projects that include
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