EditText text color on highlighting

Question

How to change the color of the text upon highlighting it? Here is what I have tried:

edittext_text_color.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:state_selected="true" android:color="#FFFFFF"/>
    <item android:state_selected="false" android:color="@color/custom_blue"/>

</selector>

some_layout.xml:

<org.holoeverywhere.widget.EditText
    android:id="@+id/editText1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="right"
    android:layout_margin="5dp"
    android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background_normal"
    android:ems="10"
    android:gravity="right"
    android:inputType="textPersonName"
    android:textColor="@drawable/edittext_text_color"
    android:textCursorDrawable="@null">

Normal state:

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Highlight state:

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What I want upon highlighting the text:

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Change some colors and see what happens. and see this one http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/touch-mode.html may helpful — Pratik Butani, Jul 30 '13 at 04:17
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/color-list-resource.html check this one may it'll help to you — Pratik Butani, Jul 30 '13 at 04:18
@PratikButani I've played with the colors a lot but that did not help. — Eng.Fouad, Jul 30 '13 at 04:44
http://stackoverflow.com/a/1280213/1318946 Tried out this one — Pratik Butani, Jul 30 '13 at 10:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 30 '13 at 05:45

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I do not think this is supported. From what I see in source code, there is no separate attribute for highlighted text, only for highlighted background. Text is drawn with text color states only, highlighted or not.

Also, android:state_selected="true" represents ColorState of aView, not of text inside it.

answered Jul 30 '13 at 05:45

S.D.

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How about watching for highlight state and change the color dynamically? – Eng.Fouad Jul 30 '13 at 05:50
@Eng.Fouad You can override `onDraw()` of `TextView`, find co-ordinates of highlighted text and re-draw that text (on top of everything `TextView` has drawn), with a different color. – S.D. Jul 30 '13 at 05:53

EditText text color on highlighting

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