How to apply a color filter to a view with all children

Question

How do I grey out a view uniformly which contains many different items - ImageViews, TextViews, background image. Do I have to grey out each thing individually? Or is there

Answer 1

Unless somebody else has a better answer, my current method is greying out each item separatedly.

PorterDuffColorFilter greyFilter = new PorterDuffColorFilter(Color.GRAY, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);
myLayout.getBackground().setColorFilter(greyFilter);
myImageView.setColorFilter(greyFilter);
myTextView.setTextColor(0xff777777);

For more or nested children probably a loop with instanceof would be suitable but I don't need it.

Edit: This filter isn't actually grey, a better filter is here: Drawable => grayscale Which can be used in the same way.