Standard Android Button with a different color

I discovered that this can all be done in one file fairly easily. Put something like the following code in a file named custom_button.xml and then set background="@drawable/custom_button" in your button view:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><selector    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">    <item android:state_pressed="true" >        <shape>            <gradient                android:startColor="@color/yellow1"                android:endColor="@color/yellow2"                android:angle="270" />            <stroke                android:width="3dp"                android:color="@color/grey05" />            <corners                android:radius="3dp" />            <padding                android:left="10dp"                android:top="10dp"                android:right="10dp"                android:bottom="10dp" />        </shape>    </item>    <item android:state_focused="true" >        <shape>            <gradient                android:endColor="@color/orange4"                android:startColor="@color/orange5"                android:angle="270" />            <stroke                android:width="3dp"                android:color="@color/grey05" />            <corners                android:radius="3dp" />            <padding                android:left="10dp"                android:top="10dp"                android:right="10dp"                android:bottom="10dp" />        </shape>    </item>    <item>                <shape>            <gradient                android:endColor="@color/blue2"                android:startColor="@color/blue25"                android:angle="270" />            <stroke                android:width="3dp"                android:color="@color/grey05" />            <corners                android:radius="3dp" />            <padding                android:left="10dp"                android:top="10dp"                android:right="10dp"                android:bottom="10dp" />        </shape>    </item></selector>

Following on from Tomasz's answer, you can also programmatically set the shade of the entire button using the PorterDuff multiply mode. This will change the button colour rather than just the tint.

If you start with a standard grey shaded button:

button.getBackground().setColorFilter(0xFFFF0000, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);

will give you a red shaded button,

button.getBackground().setColorFilter(0xFF00FF00, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);

will give you a green shaded button etc., where the first value is the colour in hex format.

It works by multiplying the current button colour value by your colour value. I'm sure there's also a lot more you can do with these modes.

Mike, you might be interested in color filters.

An example:

button.getBackground().setColorFilter(new LightingColorFilter(0xFFFFFFFF, 0xFFAA0000));

try this to achieve the color you want.