How to change the colour of text in Android apps

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This question might be so so simple but difficult for me as a beginner. I am developing an Android app by java. So There is a TextView.

How can I add some style to it. Like changing its colour, font and etc ??

Please describe what you have tried. – cmd Oct 17 '13 at 00:48 — cmd, Oct 17 '13 at 00:48

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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This will change the color from xml:

<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height"wrap_content"
android:textColor="#123123"
/>

Changing font is a little bit more in depth. Put your desired font file into the assets folder of your project and use the setTypeface() method of TextView. That has been covered in a previous question: How to change the font on the TextView?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Oct 17 '13 at 00:37

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Thanks. So are all styles added to its own section? Like isn't there something like CSS that you make a style identified by an id and that applies to all widgets that hold that id ?! – Dan Ask Oct 17 '13 at 00:40
you can do something similar, see here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html – FoamyGuy Oct 17 '13 at 00:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 17 '13 at 00:43

Alright, Here is the documentation of TextView. There are basically two ways to style the text view using xml and in java code. Here is the relevent xml attributes:

android:textColor
android:textColorHighlight
android:textColorHint
android:textSize

And so on. On code it would look something like this:

TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv);
tv.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);

How to change the colour of text in Android apps

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