Programmatically set text color to primary android textview

Question

How can I set the text color of my TextView to ?android:textColorPrimary programmatically?

I've tried the code below but it sets the text color always to white for both textColorPrimary and textColorPrimaryInverse (Both of them are not white, I have checked through XML).

TypedValue typedValue = new TypedValue(); Resources.Theme theme = getActivity().getTheme(); theme.resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.textColorPrimaryInverse, typedValue, true); int primaryColor = typedValue.data;  mTextView.setTextColor(primaryColor); 

Answer 1

Finally I used the following code to get the primary text color of the theme -

// Get the primary text color of the theme TypedValue typedValue = new TypedValue(); Resources.Theme theme = getActivity().getTheme(); theme.resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.textColorPrimary, typedValue, true); TypedArray arr =         getActivity().obtainStyledAttributes(typedValue.data, new int[]{                 android.R.attr.textColorPrimary}); int primaryColor = arr.getColor(0, -1); 

Answer 2

You need to check if the attribute got resolved to a resource or a color value.

The default value of textColorPrimary is not a Color but a ColorStateList, which is a resource.

Kotlin solution

@ColorInt fun Context.resolveColorAttr(@AttrRes colorAttr: Int): Int {     val resolvedAttr = resolveThemeAttr(colorAttr)     // resourceId is used if it's a ColorStateList, and data if it's a color reference or a hex color     val colorRes = if (resolvedAttr.resourceId != 0) resolvedAttr.resourceId else resolvedAttr.data     return ContextCompat.getColor(this, colorRes) }  fun Context.resolveThemeAttr(@AttrRes attrRes: Int): TypedValue {     val typedValue = TypedValue()     theme.resolveAttribute(attrRes, typedValue, true)     return typedValue } 

Usage

@ColorInt val color = context.resolveColorAttr(android.R.attr.textColorPrimaryInverse)