How to set the text color of TextView in code?

Question

In XML, we can set a text color by the textColor attribute, like android:textColor=\"#FF0000\". But how do I change it by coding?

I tried s

Answer 1

holder.userType.setTextColor(context.getResources().getColor(
                    R.color.green));

Answer 2

If you are in an adapter and still want to use a color defined in resources you can try the following approach:

holder.text.setTextColor(holder.text.getContext().getResources().getColor(R.color.myRed));

Answer 3

You can do this only from an XML file too.

Create a color.xml file in the values folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="textbody">#ffcc33</color>

</resources>

Then in any XML file, you can set color for text using,

android:textColor="@color/textbody"

Or you can use this color in a Java file:

final TextView tvchange12 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView2);
//Set color for textbody from color.xml file
tvchange1.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.textbody));

Answer 4

There are many different ways to set color on text view.

1. Add color value in studio res->values->colors.xml as

   <color name="color_purple">#800080</color>
   

   Now set the color in xml or actvity class as

   text.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.color_purple)
   

2. If you want to give color code directly use below Color.parseColor code

   textView.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#ffffff"));   
   

3. You can also use RGB

   text.setTextColor(Color.rgb(200,0,0));
   

4. Use can also use direct hexcode for textView. You can also insert plain HEX, like so:

   text.setTextColor(0xAARRGGBB);
   

5. You can also use argb with alpha values.

      text.setTextColor(Color.argb(0,200,0,0));
   

   a for Alpha (Transparent) v.

6. And if you're using the Compat library you can do something like this

      text.setTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.color_purple));
   

Answer 5

I normally do this for any views:

myTextView.setTextColor(0xAARRGGBB);

where

• AA defines alpha (00 for transparent, FF for opaque)

• RRGGBB defines the normal HTML color code (like FF0000 for red).

Answer 6

Kotlin Extension Solution

Add these to make changing text color simpler

For setting ColorInt

myView.textColor = Color.BLACK // or Color.parseColor("#000000"), etc.

var TextView.textColor: Int
get() = currentTextColor
set(@ColorInt color) {
    setTextColor(color)
}

For setting ColorRes

myView.setTextColorRes(R.color.my_color)

fun TextView.setTextColorRes(@ColorRes colorRes: Int) {
    val color = ContextCompat.getColor(context, colorRes)
    setTextColor(color)
}