android:textColor not working for TextView

Question

android:textColor doesn't seem to work for TextView inside a nested LinearLayout . I had a look at the question at Textcolor selector not working . But it is also not working in my case. Following is my layout file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context=".CreateActivity">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/lblTitle"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="end"
            android:layout_weight="0.9"
            android:hint="Title:"
            android:textAlignment="textEnd"
            android:textSize="24sp"
            android:textColor="#000000"/>

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/lblTitleEdit"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:hint="Enter your title here"
            android:layout_weight="0.4"
            android:inputType="text"/>

    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/lblVenue"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="end"
            android:layout_weight="0.9"
            android:hint="Venue:"
            android:textAlignment="textEnd"
            android:textSize="24sp"
            android:textColor="#000000"/>

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/lblVenueEdit"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:hint="Enter your venue here"
            android:layout_weight="0.4"
            android:inputType="text"/>

    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Am I making any mistake here? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You used hint as text here. So you have to apply color to your hint with the following code. or you can also change hint to text in your xml .

android:textColorHint="#000"

Answer 2

Add android: text, you give hint property and try to text color change

android:text="Title:"

Answer 3

Please check this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context=".CreateActivity">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/lblTitle"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="end"
            android:layout_weight="0.9"
            android:text="Title:"
            android:textAlignment="textEnd"
            android:textSize="24sp"
            android:textColor="#000000"/>

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/lblTitleEdit"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:hint="Enter your title here"
            android:layout_weight="0.4"
            android:inputType="text"/>

    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/lblVenue"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="end"
            android:layout_weight="0.9"
            android:text="Venue:"
            android:textAlignment="textEnd"
            android:textSize="24sp"
            android:textColor="#000000"/>

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/lblVenueEdit"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:hint="Enter your venue here"
            android:layout_weight="0.4"
            android:inputType="text"/>

    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 4

For android:text="Title:" you should use android:textColor="#000000"

And

For android:hint="Title:" you should use android:textColorHint="#000000"

Happy Coding.

Answer 5

You are trying to give text color to android: hint and replace it with android: text .

See the answer below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context=".CreateActivity">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/lblTitle"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="end"
            android:layout_weight="0.9"
            android:text="Title:"
            android:textAlignment="textEnd"
            android:textSize="24sp"
            android:textColor="#000000"/>

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/lblTitleEdit"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:hint="Enter your title here"
            android:layout_weight="0.4"
            android:inputType="text"/>

    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/lblVenue"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="end"
            android:layout_weight="0.9"
            android:text="Venue:"
            android:textAlignment="textEnd"
            android:textSize="24sp"
            android:textColor="#000000"/>

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/lblVenueEdit"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:hint="Enter your venue here"
            android:layout_weight="0.4"
            android:inputType="text"/>

    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 6

Here what you set in text view is hint text. So , you need to set textColorHint property of text-view.

What you was doing is setting color on text . Which will not work because you haven't entered any text in text-view .

     <TextView
        android:id="@+id/lblTitle"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="end"
        android:layout_weight="0.9"
        android:hint="Title:"
        android:textAlignment="textEnd"
        android:textSize="24sp"
        android:textColorHint="#000000"/>

Answer 7

As per your code, you wrote hint in a Textview so for the apply color in hint use like,

android:textColorHint="#000000"

Or if you want to use text color then you have to set text into your Textview as below:

android:text="Title:"
android:textColor="#000000"

If you are using a hint in a TextView then use as below:

android:hint="Title:"
android:textColorHint="#000000"