Change PreferenceActivity text color

Question

I want to change the look of my Android app's preference screen to dark text color. How can I do this? (I´ve already changed the background to white color)

Solution

I assume you use an Activity which extends the PreferenceActivity. You can use the setTheme method to set a custom theme on your preference screen. Just define one in res/values/themes.xml.

It would look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <style name="Theme.DarkText">
    <item name="android:textColor">#000000</item>
  </style>
</resources> 

Afterwards set it in your Activity:

setTheme(R.style.Theme_DarkText);

Comments

[Rudey]

What if you want to change the text color after the layout is constructed?

[shantanu]

@MarioB This code can change the title text color of preferences except EditTextPreference. What the name of attribute for EditTextPreference's title (not dialog title)?

[Display Name]

Won't work when there are more items that the screen can fit, because ListView implements view recycling and doesn't create all views