how to set color for the textView in android?

Question

In the string.xml file i use the following tag

<color name="mycolor1">#F5DC49</color>

if i use

 textview1.setTextColor(Color.CYAN);

it works, But

 textview1.setTextColor(R.color.mycolor1);

This is not working

how to use the color tag in android.

Answer 1

What you are doing is correct, but Android uses 4 bytes for color, not 3. The first byte is the alpha. You are giving it a color where the alpha value is 0, thus making your color completely transparent.

Change your color definition to this:

<color name="mycolor1">#FFF5DC49</color>

And you should find that everything starts working like you would expect it to.