android - How to change text color of simple list item

Question

I have an ListActivity and i am displaying one list with:

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(getApplicationContext(),
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_single_choice, mStringList));

By default text color of list items is white, I want to change text color of text views in the list to black.

How should i do it?

Answer 1

Another simplest way is to create a layout file containing the textview you want with textSize, textStyle, color etc preferred by you and then use it with the ArrayAdapter.

e.g. mytextview.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/tv"
    android:textColor="@color/font_content"
    android:padding="5sp"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/rectgrad"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>

and then use it with your ArrayAdapter as usual like

ListView lst = new ListView(context);
String[] arr = {"Item 1","Item 2"};
ArrayAdapter<String> ad = new ArrayAdapter<String>(context,R.layout.mytextview,arr);
lst.setAdapter(ad);

This way you won't need to create a custom adapter for it.