Android toggle button custom look
I've been trying to customize the toggle button look but with no success. Here is how I want it to look like:
Can someone give me a tutorial?
Solution 1:
create toggle_selector.xml in res/drawable
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="@drawable/toggle_on" android:state_checked="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@drawable/toggle_off" android:state_checked="false"/>
</selector>
apply the selector to your toggle button
<ToggleButton
android:id="@+id/chkState"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="@drawable/toggle_selector"
android:textOff=""
android:textOn=""/>
Note: for removing the text i used following in above code
textOff=""
textOn=""
Solution 2:
I don't know if this is the best solution but it worked fine for me:
1.- Decide how big do you want the toggle button. In my case width 56dp and height 76dp.
2.- Create the icon set 56px-76px for mdpi, 84px-113px hdpi, same for xhdpi and xxhdpi
3.- Move the icons in the corresponding drawable folder. In my case 20 icons 5 in each folder, named ic_name1_on, ic_name1_off [...] ic_name5_off
4.- Create the following xml files in a new folder called drawable (if it does not exist yet):
- ic_name1_toggle.xml
- ic_name1_toggle_bg.xml
- ic_name2_toggle.xml
- (...)
- ic_name5_toggle_bg.xml
5.- In ic_name1_toggle.xml the code must be:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:state_checked="false"
android:drawable="@drawable/ic_name1_off" />
<item
android:state_checked="true"
android:drawable="@drawable/ic_name1_on" />
</selector>
6.- In ic_name1_toggle_bg.xml the code must be:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@+android:id/background"
android:drawable="@android:color/transparent" />
<item android:id="@+android:id/toggle"
android:drawable="@drawable/ic_name1_toggle" />
</layer-list>
7.- Finally in your layout.xml:
<ToggleButton
android:id="@+id/toggleButton1"
android:layout_width="56dp"
android:layout_height="76dp"
android:background="@android:color/transparent"
android:button="@drawable/ic_name1_toggle_bg"
android:textOff=""
android:textOn="" />