How to make button with custom background image show click animation in Android

Question

How to make button show it is clicked (by setting it go down/some change) for buttons using custom background image in Android. I do not want to include more images and set

Answer 1

you have to use two images to do this.

1. button_normal
2. button_pressed

then create a xml resource in drawable folder

then, set this file as a background for the imageview. here we are using imageview as button. dont forget to include those two buttons in the drawable folder. thats it.