What is linkify's default link color?

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When you do, for example,

Linkify.addLinks(mTextView, Linkify.EMAIL_ADDRESSES);

what colour does Linkify use? It's not obviously in android.graphics.Color.

I have a few long paragraphs of stuff I just want standard links in, and one I need to do stuff with myself that I'd like to look the same, but I can't work out what colour to set it to. I could just recolour all the others, but that seems a very long way around.

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered May 06 '11 at 14:42

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The default style uses #05c5cf, and the inverse style (I'm guessing this is for the light theme) uses #0000EE (at least in platform versions up to 2.2). No guarantees it stays that way, though, but I don't anticipate they'll change that (but who can really tell).

answered May 06 '11 at 14:42

Femi

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Neither of those match for me; it looks more like #5858F8. Are they overlaid on the original colour somehow (eg, using something like PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY)? – Ben Williams May 06 '11 at 14:55
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Ah: the dark theme color changed between versions: try `#5c5cff` for dark themes. Light themes are still `#0000ee`. – Femi May 06 '11 at 15:11
Yep, that's it, thank you -- which, yay!, but also that means it changes between versions, so I can't guarantee a match anyway. Rats! >:( – Ben Williams May 06 '11 at 15:17
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Actually, what you want is `android.R.color.link_text_dark` and `android.R.color.link_text_light` and you should be able to match to version. – Femi May 06 '11 at 15:22
Those don't appear to exist for me. Eclipse says it can't find them. – Ben Williams May 06 '11 at 15:30
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Odd. Those do appear to be platform-private. Try `android.R.attr.textColorLink` and see if that works: it's bound to the underlying theme so that SHOULD pick the right one. – Femi May 06 '11 at 16:11
getResources().getColor(android.R.attr.textColorLink) throws Resources$NotFoundException with message Resource ID #0x101009b. – Ben Williams May 06 '11 at 16:19
Really odd: what Android revision are you building against? `getResources().getColor(android.R.attr.textColorLink);` and `devicelist.setTextColor(android.R.attr.textColorLink);` work fine for me when building against Android 2.0, and as far as I can tell the same attribute exists in Android 2.3.3. – Femi May 06 '11 at 16:39

score 11 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 10 '13 at 11:59

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Textview.getLinkTextColors().getDefaultColor()

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answered Sep 10 '13 at 07:52

boiledwater

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will this return the hex color? If not, how can I? – MatheusJardimB Feb 11 '14 at 01:12
@MatheusJardimB, it return hex color. please see http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/ColorStateList.html#getDefaultColor() – boiledwater Feb 11 '14 at 02:22

rds · Answer 3 · 2017-04-02T09:56:58.600

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By default, the links use android:textColorLink defined in the theme.

edited Apr 02 '17 at 09:56

answered Nov 10 '15 at 15:37

rds

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What is linkify's default link color?

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