API21 setButtonTintList on CheckBox

Question

I am trying to use the new Android Lollipop API setButtonTintList() to programmatically apply colors to android CheckBoxes.

I have set the following basic ColorStateList in checkbox_color.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_checked="true"
          android:color="@color/red" />

    <item android:state_checked="false"
          android:color="@color/green" />

</selector>

On a specific Button click in my app I inflate a new layout that contains a CheckBox into my main layout (mLayoutTotalItemRow) via:

View itemRow = getActivity().getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.row_add_purchase, mLayoutTotalItemRow, false);

After the inflation, I want to apply checkbox_color.xml to the new CheckBox via (the reason I want to do this in code rather than xml is that I want to set different colors depending on some variables):

mCheckBoxEnabled.setButtonTintList(mContext.getResources().getColorStateList(R.color.checkbox_color));

Now a strange thing happens, when the CheckBox is first created, it is red (hence state_checked="true". As soon as I uncheck it, it is green (state_chacked="false"). But when I check it again now, it changes to ticked but it stays green! Hence somehow the internal view state is not changing to "checked".

My checkbox xml:

   <CheckBox
    android:id="@+id/cb_item_enabled"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/key_line_1_minus_checkbox_margin"
    android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/key_line_2_minus_key_line_1_minus_checkbox"
    android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
    android:checked="true"/>

Any ideas what I am doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I have reported the bug to the Android project. Issue 157166
Fix for the next release 5.1

This is fixed in 5.1, which isn't quite released yet.

Status: FutureRelease 

EDIT 10.03.2015

Released in 5.1.