How do I change color of text in TextView

Question

I have a Textview called myText defined in xml. The textview has an accompanying drawable which is actually a selector.

When the user clicks on the TextView I want to not only change the drawable, but also the color of the text. My code for effecting the change is below. The problem is only the drawable is changing. The text is not changing. How do I fix this code so the text color changes as well?

Inside activity

if (R.color.my_red == myText.getCurrentTextColor()) {
        myText.setSelected(true);
        myText.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.my_blue));
    } else {
        myText.setSelected(false);
        myText.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.my_red));
    }

selector

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:drawable="@drawable/im_red" android:state_pressed="true"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/im_blue"/>

</selector>

Answer 1

I found the problem. I was comparing apples and oranges. The fix is to add getResources().getColor to the if clause.

if (getResources().getColor(R.color.my_red) == myText.getCurrentTextColor()) {
        myText.setSelected(true);
        myText.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.my_blue));
    } else {
        myText.setSelected(false);
        myText.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.my_red));
    }

Answer 2

You can use the Color class, for instance: Color.RED . Or if you have a HTML style color, you can even use: .setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#FFFFFF"))