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Android Build a Simple Android App Creating the Screen Layout Setting Colors

Posted by charlesdi
charlesdi
5,706 Points

The current layout has black text on a white background. Let's change the text color to be white. You will need to add t

I'm fairly confident this code challenge is broken or at the very least should be re-written. I have given a dozen different answers that would have sufficed in an actual code environment and they have not worked. Could I just get the correct answer (if there is one)?

activity_main.xml 
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"
  android:background="@android:color/white" >

  <TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:text="Treehouse loves me!"
    android:textSize="72sp" 
    anroid:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
            />

</RelativeLayout>

1 Answer

Ethan M
Ethan M
10,637 Points

It's not bugged, you just didn't spell "android" right on the textColor property..... Your welcome.

Ethan M
Ethan M
10,637 Points

Other than that, good job!

charlesdi
charlesdi
5,706 Points

That still didn't work, but if there's anyone else that got stumped by the oddly specific answer that needs to be provided it is: android:textColor="@android:color/white"

In the color selection there's two whites: background_light which shows up first and regular white, which is the correct answer.