Text of Android button isn't displayed in the specified colour

Question

I have a pretty simple problem. I'm creating several buttons with a method in an activity. However the text colour just remains in the standard colour (grey). I defined the following in my method:

Button b = new Button(this);
b.setTextColor(R.color.red);
b.setText("Some text");

Is anyone aware of this problem and can help me out? By googling I read sth. about spannable. However it seems that this isn't working with the text of buttons.

Several ways to skin this cat - nice answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4602902/how-to-set-text-color-of-textview-by-coding — SEngstrom, Apr 20 '12 at 20:42

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 20 '12 at 20:25

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R.color.red is a resource identifier (in Android they use Integers). You need to use that code like so:

Resources res = getResources();
int red = res.getColor(R.color.red);

Button b = new Button(this);
b.setTextColor(red);
b.setText("Some text");

answered Apr 20 '12 at 20:25

Austyn Mahoney

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '12 at 20:24

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You need to call getResources() before you tell it what color you want.

getResources().getColor(color)

answered Apr 20 '12 at 20:24

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Text of Android button isn't displayed in the specified colour

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