Implement Like a Blog Post Functionality in Social Media Android App

This is the Part 10 of "Build a Social Media App on Android Studio" tutorial, and we are going to cover the following functionalities in this article:

• We are going to Like a Blog. We are implementing this feature using two images one like button with white background and another like button with blue background.
• When the user clicks on the button for the first time we will change the image to the button with the background color blue and will increase the count. When the user clicks again then we will decrease the count and change the like button with background white.

Step By Step Implementation

Step 1: Working with the row_posts.xml file

Add a like button and total like TextView.

Below is the updated code for the row_posts.xml file.

 

Step 2: Working with the AdapterPosts.java file

 

Go to the AdapterPosts.java file and refer to the following code. Below is the updated code for the AdapterPosts.java file.

 

Output:

 

 

Note: Please Add drawable items before running the Application

 

Below is the file structure after performing these operations:

 

👁 Image