How do I change the style of the MediaRouteButton in the ActionBar?

Question

I realize I\'m probably doing something fundamentally wrong with styles and themes but I\'m still a bit of an Android newbie so please excuse my ignorance. I\'m trying to c

Answer 1

I ended up decompiling android-support-v7-mediarouter.jar to see what was going on. With the code available I was able to extend MediaRouteButton and set the private Drawable through reflection hacking. There has to be a better way right?

public class CustomMediaRouteButton extends MediaRouteButton {

    private static final String TAG = "CustomMediaRouteButton";

    public CustomMediaRouteButton(Context context){
      this(context, null);
    }

    public CustomMediaRouteButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
      this(context, attrs, R.attr.mediaRouteButtonStyle);
    }

    public CustomMediaRouteButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        Drawable d = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.mr_ic_media_route_holo_light);
        setRemoteIndicatorDrawable(d);
    }

    private void setRemoteIndicatorDrawable(Drawable d) {
        try {
            Field field = MediaRouteButton.class.getDeclaredField("mRemoteIndicator");
            field.setAccessible(true);
            Drawable remoteIndicator = (Drawable)field.get(this);
            if (remoteIndicator != null) {
                remoteIndicator.setCallback(null);
                unscheduleDrawable(remoteIndicator);
            }
            field.set(this, d);
            if (d != null) {
                d.setCallback(this);
                d.setState(getDrawableState());
                d.setVisible(getVisibility() == 0, false);
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e(TAG, "problem changing drawable:" + e.getMessage());
        }
        refreshDrawableState();
    }
}