Android - How to programmatically set button color
<p>I am reading in some data from a REST api and need to generate some buttons based on the information the app receives.</p>

<p>Because I need the same buttons in many Activity screens I have extended Button to make a RachelButton and I set it up in the constructor.</p>

<pre><code>public RachelButton(Context context, Info info) {
    super(context);
    this.info= info;

    setText(info.getTime());
    setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT, Typeface.BOLD);

    int identifier = 0;

    if(info.isAvailable()){
        identifier = getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("drawable/info_button_"+info.getType(), null, getContext().getPackageName());
    }else{
        identifier = R.drawable.info_button_unavailable;
    }

    if(identifier == 0){
        Log.e("INFO_BUTTON", "no button for "+info.getType());
    }

    setBackgroundResource(identifier);
    setTextColor(R.color.info_button_text_color);

    setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
        public void onClick(View view) {
            //do stuff
        }
    });
}
</code></pre>

<p>Then an example of the resource I am using to generate a colored button is this:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"&gt;
&lt;item android:state_pressed="true" &gt;
    &lt;shape&gt;
        &lt;gradient
            android:startColor="@color/button_pressed"
            android:endColor="@color/button_pressed"
            android:angle="270" /&gt;
        &lt;stroke
            android:width="3dp"
            android:color="@color/button_pressed" /&gt;
        &lt;corners
            android:radius="3dp" /&gt;
        &lt;padding
            android:left="5dp"
            android:top="5dp"
            android:right="5dp"
            android:bottom="5dp" /&gt;
    &lt;/shape&gt;
&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;item android:state_focused="true" &gt;
    &lt;shape&gt;
        &lt;gradient
            android:endColor="@color/info_normal"
            android:startColor="@color/info_normal"
            android:angle="270" /&gt;
        &lt;stroke
            android:width="3dp"
            android:color="@color/info_normal" /&gt;
        &lt;corners
            android:radius="3dp" /&gt;
        &lt;padding
            android:left="5dp"
            android:top="5dp"
            android:right="5dp"
            android:bottom="5dp" /&gt;
    &lt;/shape&gt;
&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;item&gt;
    &lt;shape&gt;
        &lt;gradient
            android:endColor="@color/info_normal"
            android:startColor="@color/info_normal"
            android:angle="270" /&gt;
        &lt;stroke
            android:width="3dp"
            android:color="@color/info_normal" /&gt;
        &lt;corners
            android:radius="3dp" /&gt;
        &lt;padding
            android:left="5dp"
            android:top="5dp"
            android:right="5dp"
            android:bottom="5dp" /&gt;
    &lt;/shape&gt;
&lt;/item&gt;
&lt;/selector&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>As you can see in the code I am setting the text color and I'm sure that this color exists as a resource (thank you IntelliJ).</p>

<p>But setting the text color like this has no effect at all, the text color on the button seems to be a darker shade of the button's background color.</p>

<p>If anyone could give me some advice as to what to try next I would be most appreciative.</p>
