Android Linkify links textColor ignored, css style overrides possible?

Question

I am using Linkify in my app, and visited link text is appearing as dark purple. My overall layout background color is dark blue so this is impossible to read.

Answer 1

It turned out to be a simple solution!

However you won't be able to do the visited / not visited differentiation.

    TextView contactWeb1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.contactWeb1);
    noteView.setText("http://www.blablaasd.com/");
    noteView.setLinkTextColor(Color.red); //for example
    Linkify.addLinks(noteView, Linkify.ALL);

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My attempts to catch visited states:

Use

    noteView.setLinkTextColor(getResources().getColorStateList(R.color.colors));

Instead of

    noteView.setLinkTextColor(Color.red);

In res/ create folder color and create colors.xml in res/color/

colors.xml

I have tried my best to catch visited states. I tried all the states a selector can take.

I might have missed In case you found out, share (:

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ALTERNATE SOLUTION (works only for html links)

Set the font Color programatically

Drawback (Be carefull for this point)

• You will have to catch whether it was visited or not (this is doable)

  This means that you are not overriding the visited links functionality.

CODE:

TextView contactWeb1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.contactWeb1);
String desc = "Visit my site";
contactWeb1.setText(Html.fromHtml(desc));
contactWeb1.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());