setting textColor in TextView in layout/main.xml main layout file not referencing colors.xml file. (It wants a #RRGGBB instead of @color/text_color)

Question

I\'m trying to set some general colors for a program I\'m writing. I created a colors.xml file and am trying to directly reference the colors from the layout.xml file. I bel

Answer 1

You should write textcolor in xml as

android:textColor="@color/text_color"

or

android:textColor="#FFFFFF"

Answer 2

After experimenting on that case: android:textColor="@colors/text_color" is wrong since @color is not filename dependant. You can name your resource file foobar.xml, it doesn't matter but if you have defined some colors in it you can access them using @color/some_color.

Update:

file location: res/values/colors.xml The filename is arbitrary. The element's name will be used as the resource ID. (Source)

Answer 3

You have a typo in your xml; it should be:

android:textColor="@color/text_color"

that's "@color" without the 's'.

Answer 4

A variation using just standard color code:

android:textColor="#ff0000"