I have developed a basic UI activity page in android with a TextView and EditText and a Button. I have set the TextView textColor to some hexadecimal value and my application crashes because of that, If I remove that textColor means the application runs perfectly. Target sdk = 2.3 here is the code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="15dp">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:text="Enter search Key"
android:textColor="#ff3300"
android:textStyle="bold" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/searchkey"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Search Key ..." />
<Button
android:id="@+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/button" />
</LinearLayout>
Can we set textColor for TextView or is there something else is wrong with the code.
Thanks in advance...
You need to define color in the resources file in res/values folder
<resources>
<color name="mycolor">#33b5e5</color>
</resources>
And specify using @color/mycolor in Layout file
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="Enter search Key"
android:textColor="@color/mycolor"
android:textStyle="bold" />