How to change text color of simple list item

Question

I have an ListActivity and i am displaying one list with:

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(getApplicationContext(),
                android.R.la         


        

Answer 1

In simple word "you can't do it through simple setListAdapter" . you must used custom listview for freely changes in text color or in any other views

for Custom Listview you can go with this link

Answer 2

try this code...

<RelativeLayout 
         xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
         android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
         android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
         android:background="#ffff00"> 

    <ListView 
            android:id="@+id/android:list" 
            android:layout_marginTop="2px" 
            android:layout_marginLeft="2px" 
            android:layout_marginRight="2px"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_weight="1" 
            android:background="@drawable/shape_1" 
            android:listSelector="@drawable/shape_3" 
            android:textColor="#ffff00" 
            android:layout_marginBottom="44px" /> 
</RelativeLayout>

Answer 3

If you are creating a class that extends an Adapter, you can use parent variable to obtain the context.

public class MyAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> {
private Context context;
   @Override
   public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
       context = parent.getContext();
       context.getResources().getColor(R.color.red);
       return convertView;
   }
}

You can do the same with RecyclerView.Adapter, but instead of getview() you will use onCreateViewHolder().

Answer 4

I'm also faced this situation. You can handle above method. but simple if you pass simple_dropdown_item_1line as resource. It will be black color text by default.

This is my code I have achieved in kind of situation.

ArrayAdapter<String> arrAdapter = 
new ArrayAdapter<String>(context,android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line,countryList);
        listView.setAdapter(arrAdapter);

Your code below:

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(getApplicationContext(),
                android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, mStringList));

Actually android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line is used for dropdown. I urge u to see this layout content once. It just simple textview. thats all. It's property will not affect your task. I checked It works fine.

Answer 5

If you want to keep all the style but change few details, you can use the default style defined on the Android and change what you want

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@android:id/text1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceListItemSmall"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:textColor="@android:color/background_light"
    android:paddingStart="?android:attr/listPreferredItemPaddingStart"
    android:paddingEnd="?android:attr/listPreferredItemPaddingEnd"
    android:background="?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeightSmall" />

Then set the adapter using:

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(getApplicationContext(),
            R.layout.list_item_custom, mStringList));

Source: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/refs/heads/master/core/res/res/layout/simple_list_item_activated_1.xml

Answer 6

I realize this question is a bit old but here's a really simple solution that was missing. You don't need to create a custom ListView or even a custom layout.

Just create an anonymous subclass of ArrayAdapter and override getView(). Let super.getView() handle all the heavy lifting. Since simple_list_item_1 is just a text view you can customize it (e.g. set textColor) and then return it.

Here's an example from one of my apps. I'm displaying a list of recent locations and I want all occurrences of "Current Location" to be blue and the rest white.

ListView listView = (ListView) this.findViewById(R.id.listView);
listView.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, MobileMuni.getBookmarkStore().getRecentLocations()) {
    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        TextView textView = (TextView) super.getView(position, convertView, parent);

        String currentLocation = RouteFinderBookmarksActivity.this.getResources().getString(R.string.Current_Location);
        int textColor = textView.getText().toString().equals(currentLocation) ? R.color.holo_blue : R.color.text_color_btn_holo_dark;
        textView.setTextColor(RouteFinderBookmarksActivity.this.getResources().getColor(textColor));

        return textView;
    }
});