I don't know how to solve this. I have an Anko lay...

# anko

[joe_androidsecurity]

I don't know how to solve this. I have an Anko layout, inside I have a button with onClick.
In the onClick I want to change properties of other layouts, for example I have a verticalLayout whom background I want to change. Giving the verticalLayout a variable does not work.

example code
verticalLayout{
button.onClick{
// change the background of verticalLayout
}
}

[joe_androidsecurity]

if I use another Layout on top of the verticalLayour and then assign the veritacl layout to a variable (I can't otherwise) and then try to access the bacgkround in the onClick I get resource not found exception.

[joe_androidsecurity]

Solved it by using View.background = ctx.getDrawable(R.color.XXX) instead.

I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing with Anko...

[blakelee]

If your layout is in a separate file you can give it an id such as
verticalLayout { id = R.id.name }

Then put that id in your res/values/ids file.

Then when you want to call it you can say val bt = find<verticalLayout>(R.id.name)

Finally

bt.background or whatever you want

[blakelee]

With Anko since there's not much documentation you kind of have to look at examples projects and the source declarations

[joe_androidsecurity]

Thank you, that will surely come in handy.

What I started to do is look for open soource projects and looking at some apps using Anko (and Kotlin) to get some inspiration.