Change background of LinearLayout in Android

Question

If you want to set through xml using android's default color codes, then you need to do as below:

android:background="@android:color/white"

If you have colors specified in your project's colors.xml, then use:

android:background="@color/white"

If you want to do programmatically, then do:

linearlayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);

LinearLayout li=(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.layoutid);

setting the background color fro ur layout.

li.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#ffff00"));

this is to set the image which u can store in drawable folder

li.setBackgroundDrawable(drwableItem);

some resource for display purpose animation or img

li.setBackgroundResource(R.id.bckResource);

u just used attribute

• android:background="#ColorCode" for colors

  if your image save in drawable folder then used :-

• android:background="@drawable/ImageName" for image setting

 android:background="@drawable/ic_launcher"

should be included inside Layout tab. where ic_launcher is image name that u can put inside project folder/res/drawable . you can copy any number of images and make it as background

1- Select LinearLayout findViewById

LinearLayout llayout =(LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.llayoutId); 

2- Set color from R.color.colorId

llayout.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorId));

Use this code, where li is the LinearLayout: li.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#ffff00"));