i want to change background after clicking Button in android with kotlin

Question

I want to change background after clicking Button

   var bm : Button = messeg
    bm . setOnClickListener {
        bm . background = R.color.green
    }

Error Log:

Error:(35, 31) Type mismatch: inferred type is Int but Drawable! was expected Error:Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugKotlin'.

Compilation error. See log for more details

Answer 1

background requires a Drawable, but you are passing a color resource.

1. You can use setBackgroundColor to set a color resource:

bm.setBackgroundColor(R.color.green)

2. setBackgroundResource can be used to set a drawable resource:

bm.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.green_resource)

3. background property can be used to set a drawable:

bm.background = ContextCompat.getDrawable(context, R.drawable.green_resource)

Answer 2

The current accepted answer is wrong for setBackgroundColor(). In the given example, you set the color to the resource id, but you must pass the color directly.

This won't fail because both values are int, but you'll get weird colors.

Instead of that, you should retrieve first the color from the resource, then set it as background. Example :

val colorValue = ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.green)
bm.setBackgroundColor(colorValue)