How to set button click effect in Android?

Question

In Android, when I set background image to Button, I can not see any effect on button.

I need some effect on button so user can recognize that button is clicked.

Answer 1

This can be achieved by creating a drawable xml file containing a list of states for the button. So for example if you create a new xml file called "button.xml" with the following code:

To keep the background image with a darkened appearance on press, create a second xml file and call it gradient.xml with the following code:

In the xml of your button set the background to be the button xml e.g.

android:background="@drawable/button"

Hope this helps!

Edit: Changed the above code to show an image (YOURIMAGE) in the button as opposed to a block colour.