Question

I have made a high score activity for my game. i used table row for the output of the scores. My question is that how can i change the color of the fonts in my table row because i cannot see what’s the output.

Here’s my layout code:

<TableLayout
        android:id="@+id/data_table"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:visibility="invisible"
        >

        <TableRow android:visibility="invisible" >

            <TextView
                android:layout_marginLeft="65dp"
                android:visibility="invisible"
                android:text="#"
                android:textColor="#000000" />


            <TextView
                android:visibility="invisible"
                android:text="Score"
                android:textColor="#000000" />


            <TextView
                android:visibility="invisible"
                android:text="Player"
                android:textColor="#000000" />

        </TableRow>
    </TableLayout>

Here’s the color of my output in high score activity.

How will i change the gray one to black?

here’s how i add the table:

{
            TableRow tableRow= new TableRow(this);

            ArrayList<Object> row = data.get(position);

            TextView idText = new TextView(this);
            idText.setText(row.get(0).toString());
            tableRow.addView(idText);


            TextView textOne = new TextView(this);
            textOne.setText(row.get(1).toString());
            tableRow.addView(textOne);

            TextView textTwo = new TextView(this);
            textTwo.setText(row.get(2).toString());
            tableRow.addView(textTwo);

            dataTable.addView(tableRow);
        }

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You need to assign a text color when you create the TextViews programmatically, because Android will use its default (grey) color otherwise. Black is 0xFF000000.

TextView textOne = new TextView(this);
textOne.setTextColor(0xFF000000);
textOne.setText(row.get(1).toString());
tableRow.addView(textOne);

Note that you may want to use a color resource for this to keep it consistent with your other TextViews.