I want to set background drawable of a view. There are two methods for this (as far as I see): setBackground and setBackgroundDrawable.
When I use setBackground, it says it has been added in API level 16 but my project's min SDK version is 7. I assume it's not going to work on anything below 16, am I right? But when I use setBackgroundDrawable, it says it's deprecated.
What am I supposed to use?
This works for me: View view is your editText, spinner...etc. And int drawable is your drawable route example (R.drawable.yourDrawable)
public void verifyDrawable (View view, int drawable){
int sdk = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
if(sdk < Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
view.setBackgroundDrawable(
ContextCompat.getDrawable(getContext(),drawable));
} else if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
view.setBackground(getResources().getDrawable(drawable));
}
}