setting textColor in TextView in layout/main.xml main layout file not referencing colors.xml file. (It wants a #RRGGBB instead of @color/text_color)

Question

I\'m trying to set some general colors for a program I\'m writing. I created a colors.xml file and am trying to directly reference the colors from the layout.xml file. I bel

Answer 1

You have a typo in your xml; it should be:

android:textColor="@color/text_color"

that's "@color" without the 's'.