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WhiskThimble
WhiskThimble

Reputation: 597

Set textColor in MULTIPLE textViews

I would like to change the textColor of a lot of textViews, and set in to red. For now, here is my xml code, with the first textView changed to red :

 <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:minWidth="150dp"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/data1_text"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Latitude" 
            android:textColor="#FF0000"/>

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/data1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Latitude_val" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/data2_text"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Longitude" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/data2"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Longitude_val" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/data3_text"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Altitude" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/data3"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Altitude_val" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/data4_text"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Vitesse GPS" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/data4"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Vitesse GPS_val" />
    </LinearLayout>

As you can see, the textViews are inside a Linear Layout, but sadly, you can't just use android:textColor in the Layout parameters.

Here I displayed only 4 textViews, but there are a lot more, and I wouldn't like to give the parameter to each one by one (imagine if I want to change the color after that...)

Is there some sort of tag to indicate a style to a bunch of textViews?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2335

Answers (2)

vaibhav3027
vaibhav3027

Reputation: 51

Something like this will work for you.



    private void setTextColor()
    {
    /*put id(s) of all the TextView you want to change the color of,
    In an array and call setTextColor() for all the array items*/
    int textViews[]={R.id.data1_text,R.id.data1,R.id.data2_text,R.id.data2,R.id.data3_text,R.id.data3};
    for(int i=0;i<textViews.length;i++)
    ((TextView)findViewById(textViews[i])).setTextColor(Color.RED);
    }

Now,call setTextColor() from your onCreate() method.
You also can create similar functions to set text Size and other good stuffs.

Upvotes: 4

Tahir Mehmood
Tahir Mehmood

Reputation: 71

You can add color to your edit text programatically like: 

EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edit1);
// to set text color using RGB code
et.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#FF0000"));

You can do it in XML as well like: 

android:textColor="#FF0000"

Or better if you first create a xml definition for colors in /res/values/mycolor.xml like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<color name="red">#ff0000</color>
<color name="green">#00ff00</color>
<color name="blue">#0000ff</color>
</resources>

and set color of editText like : 

 android:textColor="@android:color/white"

and programatically like : 

 et.setTextColor(R.color.white);

Hope it helps;

Upvotes: 0

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