Android Button Drawable Tint

Question

Is it possible to tint the drawableLeft in an android button? I have a black drawable I\'d like to tint white. I know how to achieve this with an image view (image on the le

Answer 1

As @Boris suggested, you can use the support library.

I have extended the AppCompatButton with some draft code. The TintAppCompatButton should have default behaviour but TintAppCompatButtonCustom was made to demo custom coloring.

I’ll see if I can raise a PR to get that into the official support library.

The code of interest is:

private void init() {
    PorterDuff.Mode tintMode = PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN;
    Drawable[] ds = getCompoundDrawables();
    tint(ds[LEFT], Color.RED, tintMode);
    tint(ds[TOP], Color.YELLOW, tintMode);
    tint(ds[RIGHT], Color.GREEN, tintMode);
    tint(ds[BOTTOM], Color.BLUE, tintMode);
}

private void tint(Drawable d, int color, PorterDuff.Mode tintMode) {
    TintInfo ti = new TintInfo();
    ti.mTintMode = tintMode;
    ti.mTintList = ColorStateList.valueOf(color);
    ti.mHasTintList = true;
    ti.mHasTintMode = true;

    TintManager.tintDrawable(d, ti, new int[]{0});
}