Android: why Chronometer.setText is not showing any text?

Question

I want Chronometer to display my timer. When Chronometer.stop is called, i want to stop timer and display text at same place.

Timer is getting stopped but after stopping when i try to

setText("Stopped");

It is not working. Please let me know if i'm doing valid things or not.

XML changes:

     <Chronometer android:id="@+id/timer"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textColor="@color/green"
        android:visibility="visible" />

Code changes:

        mTimer = (Chronometer) mRootGroupView.findViewById(R.id.timer);

On two buttons i'm starting and stopping timer.

      mTimer.stop();
      mTimer.setText("stopped"); 
      mTimer.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
      mTimer.setTextColor(color.red);

Please HELP !!!

You might want to post more code since everything looks good at this point. — Voicu, Jun 12 '13 at 06:44

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '13 at 08:49

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Solution:

Problem was at setting color, thats why it wasnt displaying text at all (as if text is set to invisible)

modified code to :

      //mTimer.setTextColor(color.red);
      mTimer.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.red));

It started working, I donno why it was giving problem. red color is defined in res/values/colors.xml.

answered Jul 20 '13 at 08:49

parul

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I had similar problem - chronometer showed text only when touched where I supposed it could be drawn. Setting it any color solved the problem. – Petr Marek Feb 16 '15 at 16:15

Android: why Chronometer.setText is not showing any text?

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