Android Question How can I change the background color of a button

Hi

I'd like to change the default color of a button to be blue for example. How can I do this easily?

 

For general change:
button.Color = Colors.Blue
But in this case the button is blue in all states.
To use different colors for the button states (disabled, pressed, normal, ...) you must use StateListDrawable and ColorDrawables.
See example here: link

 

Thanks a lot, I was looking for a property in the designer. I'm assigning an RGB value like this

cmdLogin.Color = Colors.RGB(154,217,234)

but this seems to take away the corner radius/rounded corners, do you have any idea to fix that.

 

Found it,

Code:

Sub PowderBlueButton(btn As Button)
    Dim dr As ColorDrawable
    dr.Initialize(Colors.rgb(154,217,234), 2%x)
    btn.Background = dr
End Sub

 

To make your sub more reusable it would be better to pass the required color as a parameter. But if always wanting the same colour then of course you can stick with what you have already.

 

Definately...