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

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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 believe I m am doing this correctly however it s giving me the following error   Color value   colors text color  must start with     Here is my res values colors xml   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt resources gt       lt color name  background color  gt  888888 lt  color gt       lt color name  text color  gt  00FFFF lt  color gt   lt  resources gt    Here is my res layout main xml   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  fill parent       android orientation  vertical  gt   lt TextView       android layout width  fill parent       android text   string hello       android layout height  wrap content       android id    id TextView01       android textColor   colors text color   gt   lt  LinearLayout gt    I looked at some references on the android developers site  More Resource Types   Color and found this code   Example XML file saved at res values colors xml    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt resources gt      lt color name  opaque red  gt  f00 lt  color gt      lt color name  translucent red  gt  80ff0000 lt  color gt   lt  resources gt    This application code retrieves the color resource   Resources res   getResources    int color   res getColor R color opaque red     This layout XML applies the color to an attribute    lt TextView     android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  wrap content      android textColor   color translucent red      android text  Hello   gt    I think my two xml files follow this example pretty close - however the only difference is that I haven t used any application code to retrieve the color resource  I don t believe this is necessary  but it is a difference   I thought I d see if anyone else had similar problems or a solution  or is this a bug   I did update all my android sdk  and Eclipse plugin  files last week so I believe them to be the latest

User · Accepted Answer

After experimenting on that case  android textColor   colors text color  is wrong since  color is not filename dependant  You can name your resource file foobar xml  it doesn t matter but if you have defined some colors in it you can access them using  color some color   Update      file location    res values colors xml   The filename is arbitrary  The  element s name will be used as the resource ID   Source

User · Answer

A variation using just standard color code   android textColor   ff0000

User · Answer

You have a typo in your xml  it should be   android textColor   color text color    that s   color  without the  s

User · Answer

You should write textcolor in xml as  android textColor   color text color    or  android textColor   FFFFFF

[android] 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)

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