Xamarin Android SetBackgroundDrawable deprecated but not SetBackground()

Question

var textView = parentView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.txt_chat_message);
GradientDrawable gd = new GradientDrawable();
gd.SetCornerRadius(10);
gd.SetColor(Color.Yellow);
textView.SetBackgroundDrawable(gd);

As in the example above SetBackgroundDrawable allows me to control the color and radius programmatically. I have looked at SetBackgroundResouce but I cannot find a clear example as it just seems to take an ID to a resource that I could not change progamatically.

Could someone help me providing an alternative that gives me the flexibility to do the exact same as SetBackgroundDrawable above please?

Answer 1

Use the Background property. Generally whenever Android has a getX/setX method with no arguments, Xamarin converts it to a C# style property named X.

var textView = parentView.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.txt_chat_message);
GradientDrawable gd = new GradientDrawable();
gd.SetCornerRadius(10);
gd.SetColor(Color.Yellow);
textView.Background = gd;