Android – Actionbar button background

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I want to customize actionbar buttons with an image both for pressed and not pressed state. I put a drawable selector on android:icon with two states (pressed and not pressed). The problem is that, if I press the button, I still have the blue background (ics holo style) along with my pressed button icon. How can I remove this behaviour from actionbar customized icon buttons?

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Best Answer

I think the more specific way is to put this attribute in your application Theme:

    <item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>

Also put this if you're using ActionBarSherlock:

    <item name="actionBarItemBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>

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Create a stateful color for your button, just like you did for background, for example:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <!-- Focused and not pressed -->
    <item android:state_focused="true" 
          android:state_pressed="false" 
          android:color="#ffffff" />

    <!-- Focused and pressed -->
    <item android:state_focused="true" 
          android:state_pressed="true" 
          android:color="#000000" />

    <!-- Unfocused and pressed -->
    <item android:state_focused="false" 
          android:state_pressed="true" 
          android:color="#000000" />

    <!-- Default color -->
    <item android:color="#ffffff" />

</selector>

Place the xml in a file at res/drawable folder i.e. res/drawable/button_text_color.xml. Then just set the drawable as text color:

android:textColor="@drawable/button_text_color"

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Create an xml file in your drawable like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
        android:state_enabled="false"
        android:drawable="@drawable/btn_sendemail_disable" />
    <item
        android:state_pressed="true"
        android:state_enabled="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/btn_send_email_click" />
    <item
        android:state_focused="true"
        android:state_enabled="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/btn_sendemail_roll" />
    <item
        android:state_enabled="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/btn_sendemail" />
</selector>

And set images accordingly and then set this xml as background of your imageButton.

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