Change the background color of CardView programmatically

android android-5.0-lollipop android-cardview
Gabriele Mariotti picture Gabriele Mariotti · Oct 25, 2014 · Viewed 139.2k times · Source

The CardView has an attribute card_view:cardBackgroundColor to define the background color. This attribute works fine.

At the same time there isn't a method to change the color dynamically.

I've just tried solutions like:

mCardView.setBackgroundColor(...);

or using a Layout inside the cardView

   <android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/inside_layout">
    </android.support.v7.widget.CardView>  

 View insideLayout = mCardView.findViewById(R.id.inside_layout);
 cardLayout.setBackgroundColor(XXXX);

These solutions don't work because the card has a cardCornerRadius.

Answer

Simon picture Simon · Nov 24, 2014

What you are looking for is:

CardView card = ...
card.setCardBackgroundColor(color);

In XML 

 card_view:cardBackgroundColor="@android:color/white"

Update: in XML

app:cardBackgroundColor="@android:color/white"

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