How can I set the android preference summary text color?

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On my preference screen I have a preference that when clicked opens a color picker dialog. What I would like to do is when the user selects a color, that the text summary of the preference is displayed in that color.

I know I can have the summary set up like this, Currently <font color="#ff0000">this color</font> and have it display in that color. The problem is the color I am getting back is the android int color.

I could use the red(), green(), blue() methods and then convert those to Hex and then combine them into a string so I could set the summary text with the new value and that works: String colorString = String.format("#%02x%02x%02x",Color.red( defaultColor ), Color.green( defaultColor ), Color.blue( defaultColor )); I was just curious if there is an easier way to do this.

Thanks ahead of time.

Sean

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5 Answers

A bit late, but I found useful to write these self-contained methods:

private void setColorPreferencesTitle(EditTextPreference textPref, int color) {
    CharSequence cs     = (CharSequence) textPref.getTitle();
    String plainTitle   = cs.subSequence(0, cs.length()).toString();
    Spannable coloredTitle = new SpannableString (plainTitle);
    coloredTitle.setSpan( new ForegroundColorSpan(color), 0, coloredTitle.length(), 0 );
    textPref.setTitle(coloredTitle);
}

private void resetColorPreferencesTitle(EditTextPreference textPref) {
    CharSequence cs     = (CharSequence) textPref.getTitle();
    String plainTitle   = cs.subSequence(0, cs.length()).toString();
    textPref.setTitle(plainTitle);
}
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