What's the Color code for Android Hint?

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What's the Color code that Android:hint uses? By that I mean the grayish color.

i think he want to know the exact color as an rgb hex string. — kai, Mar 11 '14 at 13:19
are you talking about this? http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#getHintTextColors%28%29 — donfuxx, Mar 11 '14 at 13:23

score 63 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 05 '20 at 14:58

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R: 128 
G: 128 
B: 128

or

#808080

edited Feb 05 '20 at 14:58

Vadim Kotov

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answered Mar 11 '14 at 13:22

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The color which @lapadets provide is better matching the hint on my nexus 7, Android 5.1 – Gem Feb 17 '16 at 11:29
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#9E9E9E seems to be better matching in my device. #808080 is too dark, whereas #A8A8A8 is a bit lighter than the default hint color. The best option would be to use @Pomanh 's solution if the colour should match accurately. – Abhimanyu Jan 04 '20 at 16:08

score 40 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 20 '16 at 10:38

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in your xml use this:

    android:textColor="?android:textColorHint"

answered Nov 20 '16 at 10:38

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#808080 was too dark, this is perfect – DIRTY DAVE Nov 01 '21 at 19:13

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 11 '14 at 13:25

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try #a8a8a8 :)

Create a color.xml file in the res/value folder

Then define it like that:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
 <color name="gray">#a8a8a8</color>
</resources>

Then use it like that:

android.graphics.Color.gray;

answered Mar 11 '14 at 13:25

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Don't call it grey. Give it a name that represents the application of the color. Call it "hintColor" or something. – Mark Buikema Mar 11 '14 at 13:44

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 17 '14 at 16:46

For getting hint color you can use getCurrentHintTextColor(). Then you need to transform int to hex format. For example:

EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edit_text);
        int c = et.getCurrentHintTextColor();
        Log.d("Hint color", String.format("%X", c));

John · Answer 5 · 2019-07-05T12:51:39.887

in sources, holo theme :

<color name="hint_foreground_holo_light">#808080</color>
<color name="hint_foreground_holo_dark">#808080</color>

Material theme:

<color name="foreground_material_dark">@android:color/white</color>
<item format="float" name="hint_alpha_material_dark" type="dimen">0.50</item>

<color name="foreground_material_light">@android:color/black</color>      
<item format="float" name="hint_alpha_material_light" type="dimen">0.38</item>

so for light theme you can use #61000000 //black 38%

and for dark theme #80ffffff //white 50%

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 11 '14 at 13:37

Best approach would be to feed in color values with R,G,B Channels. For gray,

    R=127 (hex = 7F), 
    G=127 (hex = 7F), 
    B=127 (hex = 7F),
    Hence, color-value = #7F7F7F -> go ahead and use this for gray color

OR, if you are lazy and dont want to do the above math - you can choose to use the inbuilt color options available. For example, in a simple TextView

android:textColor="@android:color/black"

There are more options, hitting Ctrl + Space after color/ will show the other possible options.

Hope this helps.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 30 '21 at 09:36

Create an adapter like this

class SpinnerAdapter(context: Context, items: List<String>) :
    ArrayAdapter<String>(context, R.layout.spinner_item_layout, items) {

    override fun getDropDownView(position: Int, convertView: View?, parent: ViewGroup): View {
        val spinnerItemView = super.getDropDownView(position, null, parent) as TextView
        spinnerItemView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.light_gray_border_bottom_bg) // optional( here i am giving a style for spinner item)

        if (position == 0) {
            spinnerItemView.setTextColor(
                ContextCompat.getColor(
                    context,
                    R.color.hintColor
                )
            )
        } else {
            spinnerItemView.setTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.colorPrimaryText))
        }
        return spinnerItemView
    }

    override fun isEnabled(position: Int) = position != 0

}

And this is my spinner_item_layout file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView
    android:padding="10dp"
    android:text="Spinner Text"
    android:textColor="?android:textColorHint"
    android:textSize="14sp"
    android:includeFontPadding="false"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 28 '22 at 14:30

In code:

It is android.R.color.tab_indicator_text. You can get it by getResources().getColor(android.R.color.tab_indicator_text, null). Or you can get it from RGB: Color.rgb(128, 128, 128)

In xml:

Add this attribute: android:textColor="?android:textColorHint" or android:textColor="#FF808080"

What's the Color code for Android Hint?

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