Give the text a color

Question

If I have something such as:

TextView description_label;
description_label.setText("Information");

How can I choose/set the colour of the text. Eg. have 'Information' in green

Try looking at the documentation for the object in question before you post here. Lots of times these simple questions can be answered there Ex. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html — dymmeh, Feb 26 '13 at 20:20
you may have a look at these threads http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4602902/how-to-set-text-color-of-textview-in-code and http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Color.html — William Kinaan, Feb 26 '13 at 20:30

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '13 at 20:16

3

Call description.setTextColor(). Or use android:textColor in the xml.

answered Feb 26 '13 at 20:16

Gabe Sechan

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 00:44

0

TextView description_label;
description_label.setTextColor(Color.GREEN);
description_label.setText("Information");

answered Feb 27 '13 at 00:44

JRowan

2 Answers2