How to change text color of preference category in Android?

Question

The textColor attribute isn't working. Here's my XML:

<PreferenceCategory         android:title="Title"         android:textColor="#00FF00"> 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

use this customize PreferenceCategory class :

public class MyPreferenceCategory extends PreferenceCategory {     public MyPreferenceCategory(Context context) {         super(context);     }      public MyPreferenceCategory(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {         super(context, attrs);     }      public MyPreferenceCategory(Context context, AttributeSet attrs,             int defStyle) {         super(context, attrs, defStyle);     }      @Override     protected void onBindView(View view) {         super.onBindView(view);         TextView titleView = (TextView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.title);         titleView.setTextColor(Color.RED);     } } 

and add this at your Pref.xml file :

<ali.UI.Customize.MyPreferenceCategory android:title="@string/pref_server" /> 

Answer 2

One solution is to make a theme for your PreferenceScreen. So in your themes.xml or styles.xml (better to put it in themes.xml) :

<style name="PreferenceScreen" parent="YourApplicationThemeOrNone">     <item name="android:textColor">@color/yourCategoryTitleColor</item> </style> 

then in your AndroidManifest.xml :

<activity       android:name="MyPreferenceActivity"       ...       android:theme="@style/PreferenceScreen" > </activity> 

It worked perfectly for me.