Custom ListView text color not changing according to theme when inside a Viewpager

Question

In my app I am having a ViewPager in the main-screen out of which 2 fragments have custom ListViews. The app has different themes with different text colors in each theme.

I have implemented all the UI attributes from the XML itself under different themes and is working fine except for the TextColor in the custom ListViews inside ViewPager which I am controlling from the code.

Question : How can I control the TextColor from the XMl ?

I have tried setting the color attributes for the 3 themes as TextStyle, TextAppearence, TextColor etc. But nothing worked while the same code was working when these custom ListViews were not within the ViewPager.

I am not adding any specific codes as I have tried many methods. But as an example, this is the code which I used for setting the TextColor.

android:textColor="?attr/listItemContentTextColor"

where the attribute is,

 <attr name="listItemContentTextColor" format="color" />

which is specified in the themes as,

<item name="listItemContentTextColor">@android:color/white</item>

Is there any way I can control it from the XML itself?

Answer 1

Well, I found the answer to my Question.

I couldn't control it from the XML itself, but I could implement it dynamically instead of hardcoding it. :)

The problem was only with those custom listviews within the ViewPager which was not taking the attributes from the XML. This is how I solved it.

In /values/attr.xml

 <attr name="listFontColor" format="color" />

And in each Theme, I set the listFontColor attribute values accordingly.

<item name="listFontColor">@android:color/white</item>

Instead of checking with each theme in the code, I fetched the current theme and assigned the font color in the code in my Adapter like this,

//dynamically fetching the theme's list font Color and setting it to textview
TypedArray a = ((MyActivity)context).getTheme().obtainStyledAttributes(((MyApplication)(context.getApplicationContext())).getcurrentTheme(), new int[] {R.attr.listFontColor});     
int attributeResourceId = a.getResourceId(0, 0);
listTitle.setTextColor(context.getResources().getColor(attributeResourceId));

Thanks for the reference :)