color-palette or third party plugin in order to set colors in eclipse

Question

Is there easy way to manipulate colors in android ?

• In dot.net we have color palette to change the color of objects(button-background,text-color.. etc)

• similarly is there any color palette/or/-any-plugins in object browser of eclipse IDE at design time

Note :: I am aware of changing the color by adding color codes in styles.xml and referencing it in layout.xml

Answer 1

You can do this in some cases directly,

eg in TextView you can change the Text Color by applying this statement in

Java code

 textView1.setTextColor(Color.Red);

for other objects like buttons etc. you can not change their Color Directly like C# .

You have to create different .xml file and then you will store this .xml file inb drawable folder, in your activity_main(where button is created in your layout file) you have to make reference eg

<Button
    android:background="@drawable/red_button" />

now the colored button .xml file located in

res/drawable/red_button.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>    
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/red_button_pressed" />
    <item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/red_button_focus" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/red_button_rest" />
</selector>

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