How to add button tint programmatically

Question

In the new AppCompat library, we can tint the button this way:

Answer 1

this is easily handled in the new Material Button from material design library, first, add the dependency:

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.1.0-alpha07'

then in your XML, use this for your button:

and when you want to change the color, here's the code in Kotlin, It's not deprecated and it can be used prior to Android 21:

accept.backgroundTintList = ColorStateList.valueOf(ResourcesCompat.getColor(resources, 
R.color.colorPrimary, theme))