Drawable tinting for api <21

Is it possible to make drawable tinting work for api < 21?

<bitmap
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:src="@drawable/ic_calendar"
    android:tint="@color/primary" />

Works just fine but only for devices with API21. Any workaround for lower api devices or AppCompat support? Can't find anything.

Use the AppCompatImageView like so:

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatImageView
        android:id="@+id/my_appcompat_imageview"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/my_image"
        android:tint="#636363"
    />

Make sure you have the latest appcompat-v7 in your app's build.gradle.

Example: compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.0.0' in your app's build.gradle.

You can achieve that using source code. Previously tinting was not supported by DrawableCompat. Starting from support library 22.1 you can do that, but you need do it in this way:

Drawable normalDrawable = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.drawable_to_tint);
Drawable wrapDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(normalDrawable);
DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapDrawable, getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimaryLight));

Couldn't you simply use an ImageView to display your Drawable? android:tint works fine on older API levels.

<ImageView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@drawable/ic_calendar"
    android:tint="@color/primary"
    />

A similar question has been asked before here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26533340/950427

Android Drawable Tinting is supported in Android 5.0+ (API 21+) only. (It does say "At the moment this is limited to coloring the action bar and some widgets.").

> ## Theming > > ... > > When you set these attributes, AppCompat automatically propagates > their values to the framework attributes on API 21+. This > automatically colors the status bar and Overview (Recents) task entry. > > On older platforms, AppCompat emulates the color theming where > possible. At the moment this is limited to coloring the action bar and > some widgets.

And

> ## Widget tinting > > When running on devices with Android 5.0, all of the > widgets are tinted using the color theme attributes we just talked > about. There are two main features which allow this on Lollipop: > drawable tinting, and referencing theme attributes (of the form > ?attr/foo) in drawables. > > AppCompat provides similar behaviour on earlier versions of Android > for a subset of UI widgets: > > Everything provided by AppCompat’s toolbar (action modes, etc) > EditText Spinner CheckBox RadioButton Switch (use the new > android.support.v7.widget.SwitchCompat) CheckedTextView You don’t need > to do anything special to make these work, just use these controls in > your layouts as usual and AppCompat will do the rest (with some > caveats; see the FAQ below).

Sources:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html

https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/17/appcompat-v21/

Now AppCompatImageView,AppCompatButton will replace the ImageView,Button to support tint on devices with lower API. Check link for more details AppCompatImageView,AppCompatButton

For tinting images you could use imageView.setColorFilter(int color). This works from API 8 and worked for tinting my black image to a color I wanted. This can replace setImageTintList() but just using android:tint should also work.

Use this NameSpace
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

and after you can replace every android:tint with app:tint. This fix the issue for me.

I'm a little late but here's how to do it.

val textInput = EditText(context)

val drawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(context, R.drawable.your_drawable)
drawable?.let {
    myDrawable -> DrawableCompat.setTint(myDrawable, ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.your_color))
    textInput.setCompoundDrawablesRelativeWithIntrinsicBounds(null, null, myDrawable, null)
}

This will do as you want, and should work on all Android versions of the support library:

@JvmStatic
fun getTintedDrawable(inputDrawable: Drawable, @ColorInt color: Int): Drawable {
    val wrapDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(inputDrawable.mutate())
    DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapDrawable, color)
    DrawableCompat.setTintMode(wrapDrawable, Mode.SRC_IN)
    return wrapDrawable
}

If anyone want create new drawable (tin1,tint2..) try this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:src="@drawable/your_image"
  android:tint="@color/tint_color">
   </bitmap>