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Implement custom Facebook like button instead of using Facebook's Default Like Button(LikeView)?

I want to use my custom like button on my android application rather than using default Facebook's Button(LikeView). i am using Facebook SDK for Android. How can i implement custom Like button?

Solution

  • Because it's Android you can customize absolutely everything. For example I have created sample custom LikeView. You can set any color you want but try to consider Facebook convention.

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    How to do?

    Rule as following:
    In Android application if you reimplement resource from any SDK it overides it to new value which you set.
    I have found these variables from FacebookSdk classes and has overided it on my own application. You can do too.
    1. Add following style to your style file and set your own selector. It will overide LikeButton selector 

    <style name="com_facebook_button_like" parent="com_facebook_button">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/btn_facebook_like_background_selector</item>
</style>

    2.Add following colors to your color.xml file. Set any color you want.

    <color name="com_facebook_likeboxcountview_text_color">#FFFFFFFF</color>
<color name="com_facebook_likeboxcountview_border_color">#FFFFFFFF</color>