Getting Background Resource in another class in Android

Issue

I have quite a number of Buttons in an Android application and I want a separate class to be created to handle the Touch events.

So I created the following class:

public class OnTouchButtonEffects implements OnTouchListener{

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN)                        
            v.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.buttonbluepress);
        else if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP)
            v.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.buttonblue);
    }
}

Now I want that if view v has event ACTION_DOWN then I get the background resource and append "press" to it and then set that as background resource and if it's event ACTION_UP then get background resource and remove "press" from the resource name and set it as its new background resource.

I tried using getResources() but couldn't figure out how exactly that be done.

So the problem is how do I get the name of the background resource, and append/remove from its name.

Solution

I don't believe you can work with Resource addresses (i.e., R.id.nameOfResourse) the way you're asking.

I see what you're attempting to accomplish, and there is a much easier way to use customized buttons:

StateListDrawable http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#StateList

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_pressed="true"
          android:drawable="@drawable/buttonbluepress" /> <!-- pressed -->
    <item android:state_focused="true"
          android:drawable="@drawable/buttonblue" /> <!-- focused -->
    <item android:state_hovered="true"
          android:drawable="@drawable/buttonblue" /> <!-- hovered -->
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/buttonblue" /> <!-- default -->
</selector>

Answered By - mrres1