How to set include background color in android

Issue

How to set background color on an include tag in Android? This does not work:

 <include
 android:id="@+id/list_item_section_text"
 android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 android:layout_height="match_parent"
 layout="@android:layout/preference_category"
 android:background="%MY_BACKGROUND%"/>

Solution

You can not give a background color into include tag.

Why ?

Its obvious , if you could able to give the background color to include tag then it would be all messed up with your include color and another color which might be applied to that layout which has already included .

However, you can also override all the layout parameters (any android:layout_* attributes) of the included layout's root view by specifying them in the tag. (quoting from https://developer.android.com/training/improving-layouts/reusing-layouts.html#Includ )

Answered By - dharam