You can create an stateListdrawable which defines, different colors or drawables for different states of Button, and can set this xml drawable as background of the button.

For example for the button you can use following code:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<selector xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”&gt;
<item android:state_pressed=”true”
android:drawable=”@drawable/button_pressed” /> <!– pressed –>
<item android:state_focused=”true”
android:drawable=”@drawable/button_focused” /> <!– focused –>
<item android:state_hovered=”true”
android:drawable=”@drawable/button_focused” /> <!– hovered –>
<item android:drawable=”@drawable/button_normal” /> <!– default –>
</selector>