Question

I am trying to change the color of a textview in Android MonoDevelop.

I have tried this:

TextView mapTextView = new TextView(contextOverlay); 
mapTextView.Text = overlayDetailsForThisOverlay.stringName; 
mapTextView.setTextColor(Color.RED); 

I get the following error:

Android.Widget.TextView does not contain a definition for setTextColor.

I have tried to add the following as a using statement:

using `Android.Graphics`; 

With no luck.

May I please have some help?

Answer 1

I can’t understand if you want to change the background color or the text color. Anyway, to change the text color you should use this:

TextView tv=new TextView(this);
tv.setTextColor(Color.argb(255, 255, 0, 0));//ARGB 255 255 0 0 is red

And to change the background color:

TextView tv=new TextView(this);
tv.setBackgroundColor(Color.argb(255, 0, 255, 0));//ARGB 255 0 255 0 is green

Don’t forget to put this in your imports:

import android.graphics.Color;