Change background of LinearLayout in Android

If you want to set through xml using android's default color codes, then you need to do as below:

android:background="@android:color/white"

If you have colors specified in your project's colors.xml, then use:

android:background="@color/white"

If you want to do programmatically, then do:

linearlayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);

android xml android-linearlayout

LinearLayout li=(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.layoutid);

setting the background color fro ur layout.

li.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#ffff00"));

this is to set the image which u can store in drawable folder

li.setBackgroundDrawable(drwableItem);

some resource for display purpose animation or img

li.setBackgroundResource(R.id.bckResource);

android xml android-linearlayout

u just used attribute

android:background="#ColorCode" for colors
if your image save in drawable folder then used :-
android:background="@drawable/ImageName" for image setting

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