Android color selector doesn't work with custom attributes

Question

I\'ve got in attrs.xml

 
    
    
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Answer 1

You cannot reference ?attr/ when choosing colors for a selector. What you can do, if you want per-theme colors in your selector, is create multiple selectors which reference @color/ and @drawable/, and then have a "reference" attr which associates one of the selectors with the given style.

You then have to set the text color like

android:textColor="?attr/forground_to_background"

I believe the text was always red because Android was interpreting the attr's integer value as a color (red), rather than using it as a lookup for what you actually wanted.