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Gimmy88
Gimmy88

Reputation: 305

Is it possible to set the color of a string directly in string.xml?

I mean something like:

<string name="error" color="#9a1d1d">Error!</string>

Upvotes: 16

Views: 57551

Answers (13)

Silambarasan Poonguti
Silambarasan Poonguti

Reputation: 9442

Its possible try this..

string.xml

<string name="colorText"><![CDATA[ Give your string here. Like, This sentence has a<b><font color=#FF0000>Red color</b> text.]]></string>

ExampleClass.java

TextView colorTextView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.colorText);
String customColorText = getResources().getString(R.string.colorText)
colorTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(customColorText));

Upvotes: 5

bzgd
bzgd

Reputation: 49

Is it possible to set the color of a string directly in string.xml?

Yes it is possible...

Do not use hex codes or the colors you define in color! Use default colors in Android Studio. RED WHITE BLACK and automatically suggested colors like this. If you use hex codes, text will not be visible in api before api 19

<string name="try"><font color="RED">This is blue color words </font> this default color words</string>

and for Android Stduio other HTML codes

<string name="try2"><b>Bold style words</b> And this not bold ;) </string>
<string name="try3"><u>Underline style words</u> And this not underline </string>
<string name="try4"><i>italic style words</i> And this not underline </string>

Source : https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html#escaping_quotes

Upvotes: -1

Ramapati Maurya
Ramapati Maurya

Reputation: 664

You can change text color through string.xml :

<string name="completed_running_not_alloted"><font fgcolor="#6DC287">Completed /</font><font fgcolor="#FFCC29"> Running /</font> Not Alloted</string>

If you want to set text programatically then you can use it it will render your text color dynamically.

 private SpannableStringBuilder setSpan(int completed, int running){
            SpannableStringBuilder span1 = new SpannableStringBuilder(completed+" / ");
            ForegroundColorSpan color1=new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.parseColor("#6DC287"));
            span1.setSpan(color1, 0, span1.length(), Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);

            SpannableStringBuilder span2 = new SpannableStringBuilder(running+"");
            ForegroundColorSpan color2=new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.parseColor("#FFCC29"));
            span2.setSpan(color2, 0, span2.length(), Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);

            Spanned concatenated=(Spanned) TextUtils.concat(span1, span2);

            return new SpannableStringBuilder(concatenated);
        }

Upvotes: 1

Prince Dholakiya
Prince Dholakiya

Reputation: 3391

i hope this help for you.

   TextView textView=findViewById(R.id.text);

   String error= getResources().getString(R.string.error);
   ForegroundColorSpan fgColor=new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED);  // here set the color of Text

   SpannableString ss=new SpannableString(error);  //here set the text to spannableString

   ss.setSpan(fgColor,0,error.length(),Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);  //here which color , when to where you will set the color
   textView.setText(ss);

What is SpannableString in android ?

Android SpannableString Example. The SpannableString in android is an excellent way to style strings in a TextView. Put simply, it allows a TextView to provide different styles to different areas of text.

Upvotes: 1

patel135
patel135

Reputation: 927

Put this code in the string.xml file:

<font color="Red"><a href="[email protected]">HERE</a></font>

Upvotes: 6

Edward Falk
Edward Falk

Reputation: 10063

Prior to 4.x, you could do this:

<string name="error"><font fgcolor="#ff9a1d1d">Error!</font></string>

However, bug https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=58192 broke this functionality because it introduced an integer parser that can't handle numbers with the highest bit set, and unfortunately you can't omit the opacity part of the color (which most people would prefer to set to ff as in this example.)

I just yesterday learned a clever work-around. What you do is negate the hex color value in two's complement. How you do this depends on your hex calculator, but the easiest way is to subtract your color from 0x100000000. In your case, that would result in 0x100000000 - 0xff9a1d1d = 0x65e2e3. (Or you could just invert it, e.g. 0065e2e2 which would be close enough). You then negate this again with a minus sign:

<string name="error"><font fgcolor="-#65e2e3">Error!</font></string>

and voilla! you have your desired color.

Kudos to TWiStErRob for figuring this out in https://stackoverflow.com/a/11577658/338479

ETA: I just discovered that this will crash your app if you do it on a 2.x system; it throws a NumberFormat exception

Upvotes: 11

kike0kike
kike0kike

Reputation: 115

In Strings.xml:

<resources>
        <color name="etDisabled">#ac8888</color>
        <color name="myorange">#f56415</color>
        <color name="mygreen">#95cd08</color>
  </resources>

Then in the code:

 TextView myText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvJugador1);
  myText.setTextColor(R.color.mygreen);

Upvotes: 0

sonngaytho
sonngaytho

Reputation: 111

In my experience, I stored color in strings.xml look like

<color name="name_color">#ffffff</color>

When I have an View and set `

nameView.setBackgroundColor(R.color.name_color);

it's OK.

But when I set color for text look like

name_TextView.setTextColor(R.color.name_color);

it's not Effect.

If you get the same problem, just set

name_TextView.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("code hexa of color you want"));

Hope it help.

Upvotes: 3

Shruthi
Shruthi

Reputation: 61

Strings.xml

<string name="pbs_setup_title">Select %1$s <font fgcolor="#FF33B5E5">brand</font> or scan the <font fgcolor="#FFFF0000">Remote</font></string>

class.java

String SelectedDeviceType_Str = "TV"

SetupYourDevice_TextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(String.format(Html.toHtml(new SpannedString(getResources().getText(R.string.pbs_setup_title))),
                    SelectedDeviceType_Str)));

Upvotes: 6

user2380177
user2380177

Reputation: 99

  1. Create a colour in colors.xml file in values

      <color name ="red">#ff0000</color>

  2. In your strings.xml do something like

      <string name="some_text">The next word is <font fgcolor="red">red</font> but that is all</string>

I found I could not use the hex code directly in strings.xml

Upvotes: 3

ihsanhf
ihsanhf

Reputation: 440

Try this one

<string name="some_text">Font color is <font fgcolor="#ffff0000">red</font></string>

Upvotes: 10

Raghunandan
Raghunandan

Reputation: 133560

As suggested by rekire not possible to set color the way you are doing.

You can use the method as suggested by rekire.

In you xml you can specify color for your textview as

  android:textColor="#0EFFFF"

You can also set text color programaticaly

  TextView tv= (TextView)findviewById(R.id.textView1);
  tv.setTextColor(Color.RED);

To set color of particular words in textview, you can use spannable string

    TextView tv= (TextView)findviewById(R.id.textView1);
    tv.setText("");  
    String s="Hello World";
    SpannableString ss=  new SpannableString(s);                
    ss.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.GREEN), 0, 5, 0);  
    tv.setText(ss);

Upvotes: 18

rekire
rekire

Reputation: 47945

No this is not possible you have to specify that in your layout. But you can put the color in your colors.xml.

colors.xml

<color name="foo">#abc123</color>

your_layout.xml

<TextView android:textColor="@color/foo" android:text="@string/error" />

Upvotes: 5

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