Android ColorFilter and Tint

概述

关于Android ColorFilter 和 Tint之间的关系一直混淆不清。两者均是对显示的图片进行着色或者过滤。

ColorFilter: 色彩过滤
Tint: 着色

从英文原意上来讲，似乎有些相似，而从实际的效果来讲也是一致的。Android 向导文档似乎对此也是一笔带过，不愿深入，让人有些摸不着头脑：

With Android 5.0 (API level 21) and above, you can tint bitmaps and nine-patches defined as alpha masks. You can tint them with color resources or theme attributes that resolve to color sources (for example, ?android:attr/colorPrimary). Usually, you create these assets only once and color them automatically to match your theme.

You can apply a tint to BitmapDrawable or NinePatchDrawable objects with the setTint() method. You can also set the tint color and mode in your layouts with the android:tint and android:tintMode attributes.

这段文字讲述的大意是：Tint 是 API 21之后才添加的功能，可以对BitmapDrawable和 NinePatchDrawable 应用Tint 效果。使用tint效果可以省去我们为不同theme创建同一张图片的多个版本的麻烦。紧接着第二段讲道如何使用tint, 有两种方法：

1 调用函数：

 class Drawable {
     ...
     public void setTint (int tint);                       //Added in API 21
     public void setTintMode (PorterDuff.Mode tintMode);   //Added in API 21
     ...
}

2 XML Layout:

drawable file location: res/drawable/tintedrawable.xml

<nine-path xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:src="@drawable/rawdrawable"
    android:tint="@color/what_ever_color"
    android:tintMode="multiply" />

layout file location: res/layout/layout_main.xml

<View
    android:id="@+id/my_view_id"
    android:layout_width="20dp"
    android:layout_height="10dp"
    android:background="@drawable/tintedrawable"/>

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ImageView and Tint

class ImageView {