Text Color in an Android Custom Renderer

Question

I am working on a CustomRenderer, which involves changing the text color of a TextView. In XAML, I could do this:

android:textColor="@Color /Black"

However, in my CustomRenderer (which uses View/ViewRenderer as base classes), I get errors such as:

cannot convert from 'Xamarin.Forms.Color' to 'Android.Content.Res.ColorStateList?'

for code such as:

this.txtCircleButton.SetTextColor(this.Element.LabelTextColor);

In this statement, this.txtCircleButton is a TextView and LabelTextColor is a Xamarin.Forms.Color. I'm not sure what to do to fix this. Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

Try

this.txtCircleButton.SetTextColor(this.Element.LabelTextColor.ToAndroid());

The ToAndroid() extension is in the ColorExtensions class in the Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android namespace.
There are various overloads depending on your precise requirements.