setBackgroundDrawable() deprecated

Question

So my sdk goes from 15 to 21 and when I call setBackgroundDrawable(), Android Studio tells me that it\'s deprecated.

I thought of going around it using:

Answer 1

I'm using a minSdkVersion 16 and targetSdkVersion 23 The following is working for me, it uses ContextCompat.getDrawable(context, R.drawable.drawable);

Instead of using: layout.setBackground(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.img_wstat_tstorm));

Rather use:

layout.setBackground(ContextCompat.getDrawable(getActivity(), R.drawable.img_wstat_tstorm));

getActivity() is used in a fragment, if calling from a activity use this