setBackgroundDrawable() deprecated

Question

So my sdk goes from 15 to 21 and when I call setBackgroundDrawable(), Android Studio tells me that it\'s deprecated.

I thought of going around it using:

Answer 1

You are getting an error because getResources().getDrawable() takes an id (int) not a drawable as its argument. Try this:

layout.setBackground(getResources().getDrawable(R.id.img_wstat_tstorm));

Answer 2

Correct as of 23th November 2018

Kotlin:

view.background = resources.getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_image,theme)

If you include the Theme parameter.

Answer 3

It's an interesting topic. The way you are doing it is correct, apparently. It is actually just a naming decision change. As this answer points out, setBackground() just calls setBackgroundDrawable():

public void setBackground(Drawable background) {
    //noinspection deprecation
    setBackgroundDrawable(background);
}

@Deprecated
public void setBackgroundDrawable(Drawable background) { ... }

You can see this thread for more information about all of this.

Answer 4

Correct as of 15th August 2018

Use the support libraries

Drawable drawable = ResourcesCompat.getDrawable(getResources(), drawableRes, null);
ViewCompat.setBackground(layout, drawable);

Answer 5

//Java
view.setBackground(ActivityCompat.getDrawable(context, R.drawable.bg))

//Kotlin 
view.background = ActivityCompat.getDrawable(context, R.drawable.bg)