Reseting the background color of a View

Question

I'm trying to restore the background Color of a View.

I have several selectable Views. When the user clicks one of those Views, the following code is executed and the View becomes Yellow:

View newSelection, previousSelection;

...

if(previousSelection != null) {
    previousSelection.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK); // problem here
}
newSelection.setBackgroundColor(Color.YELLOW);

However, I want to reset the color of the previously selected View. However, I do not know which color it was (I'm setting it to Color.BLACK in the above code). I was not able to find a getBackgroundColor or similar method in the View class. If I had it, I could save the previous color and just put it back when the new View is selected.

Answer 1

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish but perhaps a ColorStateList would come in handy here.

Answer 2

You can try setting the previous color as a tag of the view.

For example

View newSelection, previousSelection;

newSelection.setTag(Color.Green);
previousSelection.setTag(Color.Black);

if(previousSelection != null) {
    previousSelection.setBackgroundColor((int)previousSelection.getTag());
}
newSelection.setBackgroundColor(Color.YELLOW);

I haven't tried the code if there is an error but the flow on how to implement is there.