Change background of LinearLayout in Android

Question

I am working on an Android application. I want to change the background of a LinearLayout element.

What attribute can I set in order to change its background?

Answer 1

If you want to set through xml using android's default color codes, then you need to do as below:

android:background="@android:color/white"

If you have colors specified in your project's colors.xml, then use:

android:background="@color/white"

If you want to do programmatically, then do:

linearlayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);