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Asked: 2026-05-15T14:30:59+00:00

Is there an easy way to grab a attribute value from an xml item

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Is there an easy way to grab a attribute value from an xml item in your Java class definition? I’m looking for something like this:

// In xml layout:

<TextView android:id="@+id/MyXMLitem" android:textColor="#000000" />

// in Java Class definition

String some_text_color;
some_text_color = R.id.MyXMLitem.attr.textColor; // I'd like this to return "#000000"

I know you can grab similar xml attributes from the converted objects using getters/setters like View.getText()… I’m just wondering if there’s a way to grab an xml attribute right from the item itself.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Views take the XML values and store them into class level variables in their constructors so it’s not possible to get values from the object itself once the layout has been created.

    You can see this in the source of the View object at https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/master/core/java/android/view/View.java
    if you search for AttributeSet (which is the object used to pass the XML layout values to the constructor).

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