change the button style in android code programmatically

Question

i wish to change the button background color,textcolor,text size using android code programmatically.

   Button btnLoadMore = new Button(this);
    btnLoadMore.setText("Load More");

    // Adding Load More button to lisview at bottom
    lv.addFooterView(btnLoadMore);

In this above code succesfully set the Load More Text.but i have to wrote below line

btnLoadMore.setTextColor("#FF1493");

means am getting following error

The method setTextColor(int) in the type TextView is not applicable for the arguments

(String)

How can i resolve this error.please help me.

possible duplicate of [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8148450/textwatchereditable-cannot-be-resolved-to-a-type-from-learning-android) — AppMobiGurmeet, Oct 30 '12 at 05:31
thanks for giving such a nice idea....i have to change the background using below line:btnLoadMore.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.lgnbttn); — user1780331, Oct 30 '12 at 05:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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Use like this:

TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
text.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#FFFFFF"));

Check this link: How to set the text color of TextView in code?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Oct 30 '12 at 05:34

Lokesh

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i have to change the background using below line:btnLoadMore.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.lgnbttn); it is successfully worked for me – user1780331 Oct 30 '12 at 05:37

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 06 '13 at 06:22

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Try:

Color.ParseColor("color hex value");

edited Jul 06 '13 at 06:22

Frxstrem

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answered Jul 06 '13 at 06:01

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change the button style in android code programmatically

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