How to set support library snackbar text color to

Question

So I've started using the new Snackbar in the Design Support Library, but I found that when you define "android:textColor" in your theme, it applies to the text color of the snackbar. This is obviously a problem if your primary text color is dark.

Does anyone know a way around this or have advice for how I should color my text?

EDIT January 2017: (Post-Answer)

While there are some custom solutions to fix the problem below, it's probably good to provide the correct way to theme Snackbars.

Firstly, you probably shouldn't be defining android:textColor in your themes at all (unless you really know the scope of what is using the theme). This sets the text color of basically every view that connects to your theme. If you want to define text colors in your views that are not default, then use android:primaryTextColor and reference that attribute in your custom views.

However, for applying themes to Snackbar, please reference this quality guide from a third party material doc: http://www.materialdoc.com/snackbar/ (Follow the programmatic theme implementation to have it not rely on an xml style)

For reference:

// create instance
Snackbar snackbar = Snackbar.make(view, text, duration);

// set action button color
snackbar.setActionTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.indigo));

// get snackbar view
View snackbarView = snackbar.getView();

// change snackbar text color
int snackbarTextId = android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text;  
TextView textView = (TextView)snackbarView.findViewById(snackbarTextId);  
textView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.indigo));

// change snackbar background
snackbarView.setBackgroundColor(Color.MAGENTA);  

(You can also create your own custom Snackbar layouts too, see the above link. Do so if this method feels too hacky and you want a surely reliable way to have your custom Snackbar last through possible support library updates).

And alternatively, see answers below for similar and perhaps faster answers to solve your problem.

Answer 1

One approach is to use spans:

final ForegroundColorSpan whiteSpan = new ForegroundColorSpan(ContextCompat.getColor(this, android.R.color.white));
SpannableStringBuilder snackbarText = new SpannableStringBuilder("Hello, I'm white!");
snackbarText.setSpan(whiteSpan, 0, snackbarText.length(), Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);

Snackbar.make(view, snackbarText, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG)
                .show();

With spans you can also add several colors and styles inside one Snackbar. Here's a nice guide:

https://androidbycode.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/material-design-snackbar-using-the-design-support-library/

Answer 2

I also noticed the same problem. Thanks to the answers here I've created a small class, which can help to solve this problem in more easily, just by replacing this:

Snackbar.make(view, "Error", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();

with this:

Snackbar2.make(view, "Error", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();

Here is my class:

public class Snackbar2 {
static public Snackbar make(View view, int resid, int duration){
    Snackbar result = Snackbar.make(view, resid, duration);
    process(result);
    return result;
}
static public Snackbar make(View view, String text, int duration){
    Snackbar result = Snackbar.make(view, text, duration);
    process(result);
    return result;
}
static private void process(Snackbar snackbar){
    try {
        View view1= snackbar.getView();

        TextView tv = (TextView) view1.findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
        tv.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);

    }catch (Exception ex)
    {
        //inform about error
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
}

}

Answer 3

I have a simple code that will help to get an instance of both the textview of Snackbar, after that you can call all methods that are applicable on a textview.

Snackbar snackbar = Snackbar.make( ... )    // Create Snack bar


snackbar.setActionTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));  //if you directly want to apply the color to Action Text

TextView snackbarActionTextView = (TextView) snackbar.getView().findViewById( android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_action );

snackbarActionTextView.setTextColor(Color.RED);  //This is another way of doing it

snackbarActionTextView.setTypeface(snackbarActionTextView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);

//Below Code is to modify the Text in Snack bar
TextView snackbarTextView = (TextView) snackbar.getView().findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
snackbarTextView.setTextSize( 16 );
snackbarTextView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));

Answer 4

If you are in Kotlin, you can create an extension :

fun Snackbar.withTextColor(color: Int): Snackbar {
    val tv = this.view.findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text) as TextView
    tv.setTextColor(color)
    return this
}

Usage :

yourSnackBar.withTextColor(Color.WHITE).show()

Answer 5

If you migrated to androidX use com.google.android.material.R.id.snackbar_text instead of android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text for changing color of text on snackbar.

Answer 6

I found this at What are the new features of Android Design Support Library and how to use its Snackbar?

This worked for me for changing the text color in a Snackbar.

Snackbar snack = Snackbar.make(view, R.string.message, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);
View view = snack.getView();
TextView tv = (TextView) view.findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
tv.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
snack.show();