Set the text color of calendar view month name

Question

In android , i am using an default CalendarView. I have set the background to light gray color. But can i change the color of month view of calendar view?

I have gone through the source code of the CalendarView , and i found out that there an texview mMonthTextView.. but it is not accessible outside.. so there's no way to set the text color of that textview.. — Sandeep Dhull, Nov 16 '12 at 06:56

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 29 '12 at 07:43

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As you've found out, the TextView is private, and there does not seem to be any methods for accessing it.

Although I wouldn't recommend it, you can accomplish this using the java.lang.reflect package:

    try
    {
        CalendarView cv = (CalendarView) this.findViewById(R.id.calendarView1);
        Class<?> cvClass = cv.getClass();
        Field field = cvClass.getDeclaredField("mMonthName");
        field.setAccessible(true);

        try
        {
            TextView tv = (TextView) field.get(cv);
            tv.setTextColor(Color.RED);
        } 
        catch (IllegalArgumentException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (IllegalAccessException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    catch (NoSuchFieldException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

answered Nov 29 '12 at 07:43

Ryan

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@Ryan I want to change the name of the month that appears at the top and I can do it using this way. However, the date changes back to normal whenever I scroll the calendarview up or down. any hints ? – tony9099 Sep 11 '14 at 06:59
@tony9099 No simple way of doing that comes to mind, unfortunately. You can see the code for CalendarView [here at grepcode.com](http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/4.0.1_r1/android/widget/CalendarView.java). `setMonthDisplayed` is the method called to update the TextView. – Ryan Sep 13 '14 at 16:57
@Tim see my answer for working solution for Android 5.x – 1615903 Apr 15 '15 at 10:20

1615903 · Answer 2 · 2015-04-15T10:20:20.967

On Android 5.x I have used the following solution (it works on older versions too):

CalendarView cv = (CalendarView) this.findViewById(R.id.calendarView1);
ViewGroup vg = (ViewGroup) cv.getChildAt(0);
View child = vg.getChildAt(0);

if(child instanceof TextView) {
    ((TextView)child).setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.black));
}

The layout for calendarview can be found here, and based on that the month name TextView is the first child in the layout.

Set the text color of calendar view month name

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