TextBoxBase setBackgroundColor vs setBackgroundDrawable

Open Source Development
1

Why are there two methods to set the background color in TextBoxBase.java, setBackgrondColor or setBackroundDrawable, depending on the "High Contrast" setting?

2

The default textbox appearance is a nine-patch drawable to provide the outline of the text box (provided by Android). In the high contrast mode, we blanket replace the background with a color to simplify things and ensure that it always appears the same way.

3

So in normal mode TextBox is a drawing specified by android(widget). And when we set High Contrast or otherwise set the background, the field is filled with plain color using method from View class. Now I understand why after changing the background color, the text box no longer has visible focus.

Method setBackgroundDrawable() is depracated:

    if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
      view.setBackgroundDrawable(drawable);
    } else {
      view.setBackground(drawable);
    }