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Android

Posted by Will Schwarz
Will Schwarz
2,795 Points

Set dynamic Fact Text Color

What code could I add to set the Fact Text Color to change dynamically, but also make sure it's not the same as the background color? Is there a way to utilize the same color array?

1 Answer

Jonathan McCottry
Jonathan McCottry
6,606 Points

One cool thing you can do is set up some colors you would like to see in your app and give them attributes like light and dark. This is important because if you have a light background, you want to use a dark color and vise versa. So when you are creating your new view after a button click, you will want to programmatically pick a background randomly with your facts then look at the attributes of the color and randomly pick a text color that is the opposite of background.

get colors() { bgcolor = randomgetcolor(any)

if (bgcolor.attribute == darkcolor) { txtcolor.attribute = randomgetcolor(light) } else { txtcolor.attribute = randomgetcolor(dark) }

Will Schwarz
Will Schwarz
2,795 Points

Thanks Jonathan!