How to Set the Text Color of Textview in Code

How to set text color of a TextView programmatically?

Use,..

Color.parseColor("#bdbdbd");

like,

mTextView.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#bdbdbd"));

Or if you have defined color code in resource's color.xml file than

(From API >= 23)

mTextView.setTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.<name_of_color>));

(For API < 23)

mTextView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.<name_of_color>));

How to set the text color of TextView in code?

You should use:

holder.text.setTextColor(Color.RED);

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You can use various functions from the Color class to get the same effect of course.

• Color.parseColor (Manual) (like LEX uses)

  text.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#FFFFFF"));
  

• Color.rgb and Color.argb (Manual rgb) (Manual argb) (like Ganapathy uses)

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

• And of course, if you want to define your color in an XML file, you can do this:

  <color name="errorColor">#f00</color>
  

  because the getColor() function is deprecated¹, you need to use it like so:

  ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.your_color);
  

• You can also insert plain HEX, like so:

  myTextView.setTextColor(0xAARRGGBB);
  

  Where you have an alpha-channel first, then the color value.

Check out the complete manual of course, public class Color extends Object.

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¹This code used to be in here as well:

textView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.errorColor));

This method is now deprecated in Android M. You can however use it from the contextCompat in the support library, as the example now shows.

How to set text color for all the TextViews programatically?

You can use Custom TextView for that.

As shown here:

MyTextView mTxt = new MyTextView(getApplicationContext());  //Use MyTextView instead of TextView where you want to apply color
mTxt.setText("Some text");

Your custom class MyTextView would be something like:

public class MyTextView extends TextView{

    public MyTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
        this.setTextColor(Color.GREEN); //change color as per your need here. 
    }
}

Hope it helps.

Android: Set textcolor for programmatically created TextView

According to your xml file you need to change

txtNumber.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.blue));

to

txtNumber.setTextColor(getResources().getString(R.color.blue));

Further more you can make color.xml file in your values folder and in that use

<color name="mycolor">#33CCCC</color>

now just use this way

txtNumber.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.mycolor));

Set Text Color for textView Android

You need to create a set of styles in your xml (regularly in res/values/styles.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="gray">#eaeaea</color>
    <color name="titlebackgroundcolor">#00abd7</color>
    <color name="titlecolor">#666666</color>
<resources>

In the layout files you can call to the colors or styles:

android:textColor="@color/titlecolor"

Checkout some examples:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html

Programmatically set text color to primary android textview

Finally I used the following code to get the primary text color of the theme -

// Get the primary text color of the theme
TypedValue typedValue = new TypedValue();
Resources.Theme theme = getActivity().getTheme();
theme.resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.textColorPrimary, typedValue, true);
TypedArray arr =
        getActivity().obtainStyledAttributes(typedValue.data, new int[]{
                android.R.attr.textColorPrimary});
int primaryColor = arr.getColor(0, -1);

How to set the text color of TextView in code?

You should use:

holder.text.setTextColor(Color.RED);

---

You can use various functions from the Color class to get the same effect of course.

• Color.parseColor (Manual) (like LEX uses)

  text.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#FFFFFF"));
  

• Color.rgb and Color.argb (Manual rgb) (Manual argb) (like Ganapathy uses)

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

• And of course, if you want to define your color in an XML file, you can do this:

  <color name="errorColor">#f00</color>
  

  because the getColor() function is deprecated¹, you need to use it like so:

  ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.your_color);
  

• You can also insert plain HEX, like so:

  myTextView.setTextColor(0xAARRGGBB);
  

  Where you have an alpha-channel first, then the color value.

Check out the complete manual of course, public class Color extends Object.

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¹This code used to be in here as well:

textView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.errorColor));

This method is now deprecated in Android M. You can however use it from the contextCompat in the support library, as the example now shows.

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