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How do you change the text color of your apps recents "card" in lollipop?

The following do not work:

<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#ffffff</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#171717</item>

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Michael
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  • Nobody has any idea how to do this?.. – Michael Dec 16 '14 at 16:01
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    possible duplicate of [Android Lollipop recents/multitasking header styling, text always black](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26532651/android-lollipop-recents-multitasking-header-styling-text-always-black) – laochiv Mar 06 '15 at 00:50
  • @Micharl Did you figure this out? – Jared Burrows Sep 27 '16 at 04:53
  • @JaredBurrows I did. (Here is a link to the answer below - http://stackoverflow.com/a/39726859/2415921). I wish we had more control over the color combos, but the answer I posted will work. – Michael Sep 27 '16 at 14:11

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After trial and error I found the answer.

Android "auto generates" the white (or black) text based on primary color in your styles.xml. This is pretty lame of Google to handle it this way because using certain color backgrounds may still look good with white text.

resources/values/styles.xml

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.Something">
    ...
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item> <!-- Must be dark enough to make android generate white text -->
    ...
</style>
Michael
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    Thank you and thank your for posting. See this answer as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26899820/android-5-0-how-to-change-recent-apps-title-color/27703150#comment66730493_27703150 – Jared Burrows Sep 27 '16 at 17:06