Is it possible to change Facebook login button image in Facebook Android SDK3?

Question

I ended up overriding the text to be empty string and then defining the setBackgroundResource of the button to my image (didn’t need the dynamic login/logout text functionality)

<com.facebook.widget.LoginButton
        xmlns:fb="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        android:id="@+id/login_button"
        android:layout_width="249dp"
        android:layout_height="45dp"
        android:layout_above="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_marginBottom="30dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
        android:contentDescription="@string/login_desc"
        android:scaleType="centerInside"
        fb:login_text=""
        fb:logout_text="" />

And in code I defined the background resource :

final LoginButton button = (LoginButton) findViewById(R.id.login_button);
button.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.facebook);

Kind of a workaround, but I preferred this over changing Facebook SDK code (although it’s very straight forward as well) and worry about updating each time I update the their version.

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