Lesson 1.4: How to change a color of text and background in TextView? By Android Teacher on July 4th, 2013 in Getting started , TextView tags: #RRGGBB , android:background , android:textColor , android:textColorHighlight , android:textColorHint , android:textColorLink , Color class , colors.xml , getColor , getCurrentHintTextColor , getCurrentTextColor , getHighlightColor , getTextColors , setBackgroundColor , setHighlightColor , setHintTextColor , setLinkTextColor , setTextColor , TextView From the previous lesson we know how to display a text on Android device’s screens both using XML layout files and Java code. Now it’s time to format that text. We start with font and background colors, but beside a standard text color there are also other options, like links, highlight and hint colors. Moreover we would check current color...