I am trying to set the ListView textColor to black, since I am using a white background.
Here is my MailActivity
public class MailActivity extends ListActivity { String[] listItems = { "Compose", "Inbox", "Drafts", "Sent" }; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.mails); setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, listItems)); } }
and my XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="#FFFFFF"> <ListView android:id="@android:id/list" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> <TextView android:id="@android:id/empty" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Empty set" android:textColor="#000000" /> </LinearLayout>
I'm getting the background as white, but am not sure where to set the foreground to black. I've tried in the xml and looks like it's not helping.
This example demonstrates how to change the color and font of Android ListView. Step 1 − Create a new project in Android Studio, go to File ⇒ New Project and fill all required details to create a new project. Step 2 − Add the following code to res/layout/activity_main. xml.
Change Text Color of TextView in Kotlin File We can get the reference to TextView widget present in layout file and change the color dynamically with Kotlin code. To set the color to the TextView widget, call setTextColor() method on the TextView widget reference with specific color passed as argument.
Ok, here are some things that you should be clear about:
I'll try to explain this with a code sample:
****Lets start with ListItems layout** : save it in your res/layout
folder of you Android project with say **list_black_text.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- Definig a container for you List Item--> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:gravity="center_vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"> <!-- Defining where should text be placed. You set you text color here--> <TextView android:id="@+id/list_content" android:textColor="#000000" android:gravity="center" android:text="sample" android:layout_margin="4dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> </LinearLayout>
Well, a simple layout with a TextView
to be precise. You must have an id assigned to TextView in order to use it.
Now coming to you screen/activity/chief layout, as I said you are defining background to your screen with android:background
attribute. I see you have defined a TextView there as well and I suspect you are trying to define content/list item there, which is not at all needed.
Here's your edited layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="#FFFFFF"> <ListView android:id="@android:id/list" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> <!-- REMOVED TEXT VIEW, AND KEEPING BACKGROUND WHITE --> </LinearLayout>
And lastly, most importantly, set your adapter.
setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>( this, R.layout.list_black_text, R.id.list_content, listItems));
Notice the layout resource which we are passing to adapter R.layout.list_black_text
, and R.id.list_content
which is TextView ID we declared. I have also changed ArrayAdapter to String type since it's generic.
I hope this explains everything. Mark my answer accepted if you agree.
Messy but a good quick fix way
You can also do this with a quick fix if you do not want to go ahead with complex layout defining etc.
While instantiating the adapter declare an inner class to do this, here is the code sample:
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter=new ArrayAdapter<String>( this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, listItems){ @Override public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { View view =super.getView(position, convertView, parent); TextView textView=(TextView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.text1); /*YOUR CHOICE OF COLOR*/ textView.setTextColor(Color.BLUE); return view; } }; /*SET THE ADAPTER TO LISTVIEW*/ setListAdapter(adapter);
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