How to set the color of a TextView in Android?

Question

In the string.xml file I use the following tag

<color name="mycolor1">#F5DC49</color> 

If I use

 textview1.setTextColor(Color.CYAN); 

it works, but

 textview1.setTextColor(R.color.mycolor1); 

is not working.

How can I use the color defined in the XML file?

Answer 1

TextView.setTextColor() takes an int representing the color (eg. 0xFFF5DC49) and not the resource ID from the xml file. In an activity, you can do something like:

   textView1.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.mycolor)) 

outside of an activity you'll need a Context eg.

   textView1.setTextColor(context.getResources().getColor(R.color.mycolor))