Android: Making changes to a button's parent view

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user496854 picture user496854 · Jan 11, 2011 · Viewed 29.8k times · Source

I have a RelativeLayout with a button inside it. Once the user clicks on that button, I would like to change the background of the parent view (RelativeLayout). I know I can do this by storing the parent view in a variable or setting a tag on the button, but I'd lime to avoid that (I have very good reasons for not wanting this). Isn't there a way to just access the parent view from the button itself?

Answer

Floern picture Floern · Jan 11, 2011

Try View.getParent():

Button yourBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.your_btn);
RelativeLayout yourRelLay = (RelativeLayout) yourBtn.getParent();

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