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 something like:

holder.text.setTextColor(R.color.Red);

Where holder is just a class and text is of type TextView. Red is an RGB value (#FF0000) set in strings.

But it shows a different color rather than red. What kind of parameter can we pass in setTextColor()? In documentation, it says int, but is it a resource reference value or anything else?

Answer 1

   textViewStatus.setTextColor(res.getColor(R.color.green));

Answer 2

You should use:

holder.text.setTextColor(Color.RED);

For a sanity check, I just tried it, because I had a project open anyway, and yes, it's nice and red ;D

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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.

Answer 3

TextView text = new TextView(context);
text.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("any hex value of a color"));

Above code is working on my side. Here text is a TextView on which color is needed to be set.

Answer 4

Similarly, I was using color.xml:

<color name="white">#ffffff</color>
    <color name="black">#000000</color>   

For setting the TextView background like:

textView.setTextColor(R.color.white);

I was getting a different color, but when I used the below code I got the actual color.

textView.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#ff6363"));

Answer 5

text.setTextColor(getResource().getColor(R.color.black)) you have create black color in color.xml.

OR

text.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#000000")) here type desired hexcode

OR

text.setTextColor(Color.BLACK) you can use static color fields

Answer 6

For providing rgb values: text.setTextColor(Color.rgb(200,0,0));
For parsing the color from a hex value: text.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#FFFFFF"));