Here are some views which I have customized via shader and shapedrawable class. We can create more style via this code on changing shape and Shader.TileMode.MIRROR. I have attached eclipse running code at last.
View view= findViewById(R.id.anyViewLayout);
int[] gradientColors = new int[2];
// http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Color.html
//Color.argb(Alpha, Red, Green, Blue) ;
gradientColors [0] = Color.argb( 255, 198, 194, 194);
gradientColors [1] = Color.argb( 255, 50, 50, 50);
createGradientBackground(view, gradientColors );// method which will draw a gradient for your view u can pass any view to this method either button or any layout.
//method for creating gradient background
private void createGradientBackground(View view, int[] gradientColors){
//Android View. setPadding(int left, int top, int right, int bottom) only accepts values in px
for more go to here .
view.setPadding(7, 3, 7, 5);
final Shader upperShader = new LinearGradient(0, 0, 0, 40, gradientColors[0], gradientColors[1], Shader.TileMode.MIRROR); shader
float[] roundedCorner = new float[] { 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 };// used for rounding the view either button or any layout
ShapeDrawable normal = new ShapeDrawable(new RoundRectShape(roundedCorner, null, null));
normal.getPaint().setShader(upperShader);
// final Shader lowerShader = new LinearGradient (0, 0, 0,30, new int[] { 0x55FFFFFF, 0x22FFFFFF}, null, TileMode.CLAMP);
// normal.getPaint().setShader(lowerShader);
normal.setPadding(7, 3, 7, 5);
// Create a state list (I suppressed settings for pressed).
StateListDrawable stateList = new StateListDrawable();
stateList.addState(new int[] { }, normal);
view.setBackgroundDrawable(stateList);
}
You can download eclipse project from here
Feel free to comment........
