Set Text Color for textView Android

Question

In the string.xml file i use the following tag

 <string name="CodeColor" >"#0000ff"</string>

If I use

 textview1.setTextColor(Color.RED);

it works, but when I use

  textview1.setTextColor(TextViewStyles.this.getResources().getColor(R.string.CodeColor)); 

 or
 textview1.setTextColor(R.string.CodeColor);

it doen't work. Any suggestions...

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

You can use

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

or

  textview1.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#ffffff"));

or

    textview1.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);

or

    textView1.setBackgroundColor(R.color.black);