How to use selector to tint ImageView?

Question

I want to tint my tabhost\'s icons using XML, instead of doing it programmatically (I wasn\'t able to do that anyway)...

I found this thread on SO: Android imagevie

Answer 1

With current AppCompat support library, you can use app:tint on ImageView tag which will be inflated as AppCompatImageView and handle the state change properly.

In AppCompatImageView, you can see that mImageHelper is notified of the state change:

@Override
protected void drawableStateChanged() {
    super.drawableStateChanged();
    if (mBackgroundTintHelper != null) {
        mBackgroundTintHelper.applySupportBackgroundTint();
    }
    if (mImageHelper != null) {
        mImageHelper.applySupportImageTint();
    }
}

Android Studio currently gives a warning on this, but you can safely suppress it.