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

Add:

android:textColor="#ffffff"

to TextView element in xml solves problem... it seems that overriding textcolor overrides other color styles related to element

see this question:

Android text view color doesn't change when disabled