Android how to make button text bold when pressed or focussed

stealthcopter picture stealthcopter · Apr 21, 2010 · Viewed 41.6k times · Source

I want to change the text inside a button to be bold when the button is highlighted or pressed. I currently use a xml file to define the button and use the XML to change how it looks when pressed but I would like to do this without using an image.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_focused="true"
          android:state_pressed="false" 
          android:drawable="@drawable/reset_hover" />
    <item android:state_focused="true" 
          android:state_pressed="true"
          android:drawable="@drawable/reset_hover" />
    <item android:state_focused="false" 
          android:state_pressed="true"
      android:drawable="@drawable/reset_hover" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/reset" />
</selector>

I tried using something like the following, but it doesn't seem to ever get called.

    final Button btn_reset = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_reset);
    btn_reset.setOnClickListener(this); 
    btn_reset.setOn(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (hasFocus){btn_reset.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);}
        else{btn_reset.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);}
    }
   });

Answer

DEzra picture DEzra · May 9, 2010

You could try putting the bold code inside the click event for the button:

final Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button_id);
         button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
             public void onClick(View v) {
                 // Set bold on click
                 button.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
             }
         });