Change the Color of Highlighted text in Android

Question

I\'m not sure that this is possible, perhaps someone can set me straight. I have an EditText View in an android application that has white text on a blue background. When the te

Answer 1

Object mSelectionForegroundColorSpan;
@Override
protected void onSelectionChanged(int selStart, int selEnd) {
    super.onSelectionChanged(selStart, selEnd);
    if(mSelectionForegroundColorSpan == null){
        mSelectionForegroundColorSpan = new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.GREEN);
    }else{
        getText().removeSpan(mSelectionForegroundColorSpan);
    }
    if(selStart > selEnd){
        int swap = selStart;
        selStart = selEnd;
        selEnd = swap;
    }
    getText().setSpan(mSelectionForegroundColorSpan, selStart, selEnd, Spanned.SPAN_INTERMEDIATE);
}

Override the onSelectionChanged method of TextView, get the text and set a ForegroundColorSpan

Answer 2

Try with textColorHighlight - "Color of highlighted text." http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html#textColorHighlight

Answer 3

Try:<item name="android:textColorHighlight">your_color</item>

in the style that you as your theme. For e.g.

<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="colorPrimary">your_color1</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">your_color2</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">your_color3</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">your_color4/item>
    <item name="android:textColorHighlight">your_color</item>
</style>

then use this style as the theme for your activity in the manifest file. For e.g.-

<activity
    android:name=".youractivity"
    android:label=""
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"       
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

Answer 4

As referred to by this SO post, you should be using a selector to change text colors like so:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <!-- Pressed State -->
    <item android:state_pressed="true"
        android:color="#FFFFFF" />

    <!-- Focused State -->
    <item android:state_focused="true"
        android:color="#FFFFFF" />

    <!-- Default State -->
    <item android:color="#000000" />
</selector>

And then set your textColor property to @drawable/selector_name

Answer 5

Did you try @android:attr/textColorPrimaryInverse ?