I'm having problems with "textColor" in my style.xml

Question

That's my style.xml and the error I'm getting after adding textColor item

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Another weird things is that "textColor isn't available as u can see in the next image.

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and it doesn't matter if I pick any of those hint i get the same error.

What could be wrong?

Answer 1

textColor is an attribute provided in AppCompat library, where as android:textColor is provided in Material theme.

Example:

Using Material theme and referring android:textColor attribute:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/blue</item>
    <item name="android:colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
    <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
    ....
    ....
</style>

using AppCompat library with only textColor attribute:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="textColor">@color/blue</item>
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    ...
    ...

</style>

this answer credit to @rohitarya: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36378905/4758255

Answer 2

try with this

android:textColor