Material Button background gradient

Question

Is there a way i could set a gradient color to a MaterialButton from the google material library. app:backgroundTint only sets color but not gradient color

Answer 1

MaterialButton ignored android:background until release 1.2.0-alpha06.

With this release you can use something like:

<Button
    android:background="@drawable/bg_button_gradient"
    app:backgroundTint="@null"
    ... />

If you require this functionality with earlier versions of the library you can use the AppCompatButton. Something like:

<androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatButton
    android:background="@drawable/bg_button_gradient"