android - Material button color

Question

I am styling my app and want to set the button background color and keep them material-like.

I want

Set button background color

I do

1.

I am create style for button, set the colorPrimary and set button style and colorButtonNormal. And it works.

style name="AppTheme.Button" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Button.Colored">
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="colorButtonNormal">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>

...

<item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/AppTheme.Button</item>
<item name="colorButtonNormal">@color/colorAccent</item>

2.

But I want to do one button with different color. I tried to use backgroundTint, but It doesn't work. So I create style:

 <style name="AppTheme.Button.Wildberries" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Button.Colored">
    <item name="colorButtonNormal">@color/wildberries</item>
</style>

It works on Android 4.x, but on Android 5.x button is still colorAccent.

3.

I create style-v21 for button:

 <style name="AppTheme.Button.Wildberries" parent="@android:style/Widget.Material.Button">
    <item name="android:backgroundTint">@color/wildberries</item>
</style>

Works in Android Studio:

Works on Android 4.x too

But doesn't work on 5.x

4.

Also I tried to use AppCompat.Button:

 <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton
            xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
            app:backgroundTint="@color/wildberries"
            
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Перейти на сайт"
            android:id="@+id/WildBtn"
            android:textSize="14dp"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme.Button.Wildberries"
            android:stateListAnimator="@null" />

And got nothing:

On Android 4.x device button is still purple, on 5.x still green.

So, what is the way to set button background color on android 4.x and hihger?

Answer 1

Just using AppCompatButton by setting the attribute "app:backgroundTint="@color/wildberries" and make sure your activity extends AppCompatActivity. I just use it in my project. It works like a charm in both 5.X and pre-5.X.