Question

I know it sounds dumb but every time i try to setTextColor to a textview with my own colors it never does it .

 TextView tv;
    tv.setTextColor(color.blue_light);

doesn’t work . The only thing that works is Android’s own colors with the Color.BLUE, Color.RED attributs etc .

colors.xml looks like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
  <color name="blue_light">#2D9DC8</color>
  <color name="blue_dark">#314d61</color>
  <color name="white">#FFFFFF</color>
  <color name="green_light">#308A24</color>
  <color name="black">#000000</color>
  <color name="black_light">#333</color>
  <color name="grey_light">#A1A1A1</color>
</resources>

Answer 1

Should be:

setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.blue_light));