How do you change card colors on material3 android when pressed?

Question

How to set Background Color for Material3 Card in Android Compose?

Piggy backing fro this question. The answers tells how to set a background color. When material3 card is pressed, it changes color with a ripple effect. But how can I change the effect color when it is pressed?

CardDefaults.cardColors(....) doesn't do it

Answer 1

The Card with the onClick variant uses internally an indication = rememberRipple() . This creates and remembers a Ripple using values provided by RippleTheme .

You can provide a custom LocalRippleTheme to override the default behaviour:

CompositionLocalProvider(LocalRippleTheme provides GreenRippleTheme) {
    Card(
        onClick = { /* Do something */ },
        modifier = Modifier.size(width = 180.dp, height = 100.dp)
    ) {
        //Card content
    }
}

with:

private object GreenRippleTheme : RippleTheme {

    @Composable
    override fun defaultColor() = Color.Green

    @Composable
    override fun rippleAlpha(): RippleAlpha = RippleTheme.defaultRippleAlpha(
        Color.Green,
        lightTheme = true
    )
}

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Otherwise you can use the clickable modifier:

val interactionSource = remember { MutableInteractionSource() }
Card(
    modifier = Modifier
        .size(width = 180.dp, height = 100.dp)
        .clickable (
            onClick = { /* Do something */ },
            interactionSource = interactionSource,
            indication = rememberRipple(color = Green )
        )
) {
    //Card content
}

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Finally if you want to modify the background color when the Card is pressed (not the ripple effect) you can use:

    val interactionSource = remember { MutableInteractionSource() }
    val isPressed by interactionSource.collectIsPressedAsState()
    val backgroundColor = if (isPressed) Yellow else MaterialTheme.colorScheme.surfaceVariant

    Card(
        interactionSource = interactionSource,
        onClick = { /* Do something */ },
        modifier = Modifier
            .size(width = 180.dp, height = 100.dp),
        colors = CardDefaults.cardColors(
            containerColor = backgroundColor
        )

    ) {
        //Card content
    }

Answer 2

You can use the "onClick" property of the Card component to change the color when it is pressed. To do this, you can define a state variable to track the current color of the card and toggle it on click. For example:

var cardColor by remember { mutableStateOf(Color.White) }

Card(
    color = cardColor,
    onClick = {
        cardColor = if (cardColor == Color.White) Color.Green else Color.White
    }
    ...
)

Alternatively, you can define the ripple color in the Modifier property of the Card component. For example:

Card(
    color = Color.White,
    modifier = Modifier.clickable(onClick = {
        // logic to change color
    }).ripple(color = Color.Green),
    ...
)