How to change text color of simple list item

Question

I have an ListActivity and i am displaying one list with:

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(getApplicationContext(),
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Answer 1

I realize this question is a bit old but here's a really simple solution that was missing. You don't need to create a custom ListView or even a custom layout.

Just create an anonymous subclass of ArrayAdapter and override getView(). Let super.getView() handle all the heavy lifting. Since simple_list_item_1 is just a text view you can customize it (e.g. set textColor) and then return it.

Here's an example from one of my apps. I'm displaying a list of recent locations and I want all occurrences of "Current Location" to be blue and the rest white.

ListView listView = (ListView) this.findViewById(R.id.listView);
listView.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, MobileMuni.getBookmarkStore().getRecentLocations()) {
    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        TextView textView = (TextView) super.getView(position, convertView, parent);

        String currentLocation = RouteFinderBookmarksActivity.this.getResources().getString(R.string.Current_Location);
        int textColor = textView.getText().toString().equals(currentLocation) ? R.color.holo_blue : R.color.text_color_btn_holo_dark;
        textView.setTextColor(RouteFinderBookmarksActivity.this.getResources().getColor(textColor));

        return textView;
    }
});