How to set the text color of TextView in code?

Question

In XML, we can set a text color by the textColor attribute, like android:textColor=\"#FF0000\". But how do I change it by coding?

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Answer 1

I normally do this for any views:

myTextView.setTextColor(0xAARRGGBB);

where

• AA defines alpha (00 for transparent, FF for opaque)

• RRGGBB defines the normal HTML color code (like FF0000 for red).